globalization food systems developing (4 résultats)

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Etat : New. pp. viii + 300 Acknowledgement.

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Contents Acknowledgements. Foreword. Acronyms. I. Overview papers 1. Globalization of food systems in developing countries a synthesis of country case studies/Gina Kennedy Guy Nantel and Prakash Shetty. 2. Features of urban food and nutrition security and considerations for successful urban programming/Marie Ruel and James Garrett. 3. Globalization urbanization and nutritional change in the developing world/Michelle Mendez and Barry Popkin. 4. The growing global obesity problem some policy options to address it/Josef Schmidhuber. II. Country case studies 5. Impact of globalisation on food consumption health and nutrition in Nigeria/Kolawole Olayiwola Adedoyin Soyibo and Tola Atinmo. 6. Globalization urbanization and nutritional changes in South Africa/Mickey Chopra. 7. Impact of globalization on food consumption health and nutrition in urban areas a case study of Dar es Salaam United Republic of Tanzania/Joyce Kinabo. 8. Trends in health and nutrition indicators in the urban slums of three cities in Bangladesh compared to its rural areas/Martin Bloem Regina Moench Pfanner Federico Graciano Gudrun Stalkamp and Saskia de Pee. 9. Urbanization income and the nutrition transition in China a case study/Michelle Mendez Shufa Du and Barry Popkin. 10. Globalization urbanization and nutrition transition in a developing island country a case study in Fiji/Jimaima Schultz. 11. Impact of globalization on the food consumption of urban India/Swarna Vepa. 12. Globalization food consumption health and nutrition in urban areas a case study from the Philippines/Maria Regina Pedro Corazon Barba and Luz Candelaria. 13. Impact of globalization on food consumption health and nutrition in urban areas a case study of Brazil/Ana Lydia Sawaya Paula Andrea Martins and Vinicius Jose Baccin Martins. 14. Nutrition transition in Chile a case study/Fernando Vio and Cecilia Albala. 15. Impact of globalization on food consumption health and nutrition in urban areas of Colombia/Luis Fajardo. Food systems are being transformed at an unprecedented rate as a result of global economic and social change. Urbanization foreign direct investment in markets of developing countries and increasing incomes are prime facilitators for the observed changes while social changes such as the increased number of women in the workforce and rural to urban migration provide added stimulus. Changes are also facilitated in concrete ways by food production based on intensive agriculture new food processing and storage technologies longer product shelf life the emergence of food retailers such as fast food outlets and supermarkets and the intensification of advertising and marketing of certain products. The sum of these changes has resulted in diverse foods that are available all year for those who can afford them as well as a shift in home prepared and home based meals to pre prepared to ready to eat meals often consumed away from home. These food system and lifestyle changes are in turn having an impact on the health and nutritional status of people in developing countries. There is an indication of rapid increases in overweight and obesity particularly among adults and an increasing prevalence of diet related non communicable diseases. At the same time social inequalities are increasing particularly in urban areas. The papers appearing in this publication were first presented at the Workshop Globalization of food systems Impacts on Food Security and Nutrition held at FAO headquarters in Rome from 8 to 10 October 2003. The chapters are arranged in two parts. The first contains overview chapters providing a synthesis of findings from 11 country case studies an overview of issues related to urban food insecurity a review of nutritional change in developing countries and some policy options to address these changes. The second section gives a detailed account of the changes in food systems and health and nutrition problems in 11 case study countries representative of different regions thr.