scholarly journals Functional foods: Latin American perspectives

2002 ◽  
Vol 88 (S2) ◽  
pp. S145-S150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franco M. Lajolo
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Functional Foods ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Health Claims ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Post Marketing Surveillance ◽  
Post Marketing ◽  
The Media ◽  
Local Traditions

The perspectives of Latin America as a potential producer and consumer of functional foods will depend largely on the level of information and income of the population, credibility of the products, research investments and regulatory practices. The characteristics of Latin America are diverse at the regional and sub-regional levels. However, as part of the demographic and epidemiological transition currently underway, common trends can be identified such as increasing urbanization and life expectancy, the occurrence of obesity and malnutrition, increasing incidences of chronic diseases and causes of mortality rates, all of which suggests the importance of diet and functional foods in public health policies. The Latin American population in general has no knowledge of functional foods, but in the more urbanized areas there is an increasingly health-conscious consumer, aware of the importance of food for health, due to the media and local traditions. More investment in research is important to explore the existing plant biodiversity that is a rich source of new foods and bioactive compounds, some of which are already used for health improvement and wellbeing. Clinical validation of functional foods should consider functional food science concepts and also the diverse cultural and genetic background of the local population. In Latin American scientific and regulatory communities, the functional foods concept has been associated with foods having health benefits beyond those of basic nutrition but is not defined officially in the emerging regulatory codes. Regulation existing in some countries is focused on safety and efficacy; both functional and health claims are allowed (risk reduction) provided they have scientific validation. This allowed introduction on the market of several products with health claims, some of them submitted to post-marketing surveillance.

scholarly journals Integration of Functional and Traditional Food in Emerging Markets: Regulatory and Substantive Aspects of Yerba Mate and Quinoa

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-80
Author(s):  
Claudia Elena Gafare ◽  
Mauro Serafini ◽  
Giulia Lorenzoni ◽  
Dario Gregori
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Functional Food ◽  
Functional Foods ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Traditional Food ◽  
Yerba Mate ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Latin American Countries

Given the rising cost of healthcare, the increase in life expectancy and the wish for a better quality of life, the request for foods and beverages producing a beneficial effect on health has increased worldwide. “Functional food” is a new concept and may play a key role in diseases’ prevention and management. Although its meaning is currently under definition, its role in global health improvement is growing constantly. This article aims at giving a description of existing legislation on functional food in South America, identifying future directions for health and marketing policies. Furthermore, authors provide a literature revision on two products widely consumed in Latin American countries: Yerba Mate and Quinoa. Thanks to their beneficial health effects in terms of disease prevention and promotion of well-being, they may be considered as functional foods with a potential key role in health care.

Orange Economy and Digital Entrepreneurship in Latin America

2019 ◽  
pp. 182-203
Author(s):  
Alejandro Vega-Muñoz ◽  
Guillermo Bustamante-Pavez ◽  
Guido Salazar-Sepúlveda
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Business Success ◽  
Narrative Design ◽  
The Media ◽  
Software Platforms ◽  
Generic Products ◽  
Traditional Economy ◽  
Latin American Countries

This chapter gives an account of how the orange economy begins to penetrate the traditional economy of Latin American countries, which are oriented towards the export of generic products and low commercial value. For this, the authors have analyzed the experiences of 18 Latin American creative companies identified by the Inter-American Development Bank. Cases selected concentrates in the media and software platforms sectors of the orange economy, with a qualitative approach and a narrative design through the analysis of the information of these 18 extreme cases of business success describes the possibilities that in the Latin American reality can be visualized. As a result, this chapter allows us to understand the opportunities of entrepreneurship, through the orange economy in Latin America, and to distinguish how this economic, social, and cultural phenomenon is observed, starting from the Latin American academic discourse, contributing to the construction of a definition that tries to achieve a greater conceptual precision concerning Orange economy.

FARC, Shining Path, and Guerillas in Latin America

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Becker
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Guerrilla Warfare ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Labor Movements ◽  
Grassroots Organizing ◽  
Guerrilla Movements ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

Armed insurrections are one of three methods that the left in Latin America has traditionally used to gain power (the other two are competing in elections, or mass uprisings often organized by labor movements as general strikes). After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, guerrilla warfare became the preferred path to power given that electoral processes were highly corrupt and the general strikes too often led to massacres rather than a fundamental transformation of society. Based on the Cuban model, revolutionaries in other Latin American countries attempted to establish similar small guerrilla forces with mobile fighters who lived off the land with the support of a local population. The 1960s insurgencies came in two waves. Influenced by Che Guevara’s foco model, initial insurgencies were based in the countryside. After the defeat of Guevara’s guerrilla army in Bolivia in 1967, the focus shifted to urban guerrilla warfare. In the 1970s and 1980s, a new phase of guerrilla movements emerged in Peru and in Central America. While guerrilla-style warfare can provide a powerful response to a much larger and established military force, armed insurrections are rarely successful. Multiple factors including a failure to appreciate a longer history of grassroots organizing and the weakness of the incumbent government help explain those defeats and highlight just how exceptional an event successful guerrilla uprisings are.

scholarly journals Against the current: The emergence of a media democratization policy agenda in Latin America

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-248
Author(s):  
Philip Kitzberger
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Transnational Activism ◽  
American Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Spontaneous Reaction

In Latin America, the role of the media in democratic societies has recently become the subject of public debates, struggles and political mobilizations that have denaturalized the existing media order and established a distinct policy agenda oriented towards media democratization. This region-wide trend – a counter-tendency to the globally dominant market-driven orientation of media and telecommunication policies – requires explanation. This article stresses that it cannot be attributed to a spontaneous reaction to market concentration or media elitism, just as it cannot be reduced to a top-down process driven by populist leaders seeking to control the media. Drawing on social movement literature, the article traces four interacting processes – domestic network mobilization, reframing processes, transnational activism and changes in political elite alignments – that have brought about the unprecedented politicization of the Latin American media order.

scholarly journals Fact-Checking Interventions as Counteroffensives to Disinformation Growth: Standards, Values, and Practices in Latin America and Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-263
Author(s):  
Victoria Moreno-Gil ◽  
Xavier Ramon ◽  
Ruth Rodríguez-Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Audience Participation ◽  
Growth Standards ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Data ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Media ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
The Public Sphere

As democracy-building tools, fact-checking platforms serve as critical interventions in the fight against disinformation and polarization in the public sphere. The Duke Reporters’ Lab notes that there are 290 active fact-checking sites in 83 countries, including a wide range of initiatives in Latin America and Spain. These regions share major challenges such as limited journalistic autonomy, difficulties of accessing public data, politicization of the media, and the growing impact of disinformation. This research expands upon the findings presented in previous literature to gain further insight into the standards, values, and underlying practices embedded in Spanish and Latin American projects while identifying the specific challenges that these organizations face. In-depth interviews were conducted with decision-makers of the following independent platforms: <em>Chequeado</em> (Argentina), <em>UYCheck</em> (Uruguay), <em>Maldita.es</em> and <em>Newtral</em> (Spain), <em>Fact Checking</em> (Chile), <em>Agência Lupa</em> (Brazil), <em>Ecuador Chequea</em> (Ecuador), and <em>ColombiaCheck</em> (Colombia). This qualitative approach offers nuanced data on the volume and frequency of checks, procedures, dissemination tactics, and the perceived role of the public. Despite relying on small teams, the examined outlets’ capacity to verify facts is noteworthy. Inspired by best practices in the US and Europe and the model established by <em>Chequeado</em>, all the sites considered employ robust methodologies while leveraging the power of digital tools and audience participation. Interviewees identified three core challenges in fact-checking practice: difficulties in accessing public data, limited resources, and the need to reach wider audiences. Starting from these results, the article discusses the ways in which fact-checking operations could be strengthened.

scholarly journals Латиноамериканська тематика на сторінках «Новой и новейшей истории» (1985−1991 рр.)

2021 ◽  
pp. 141-149
Author(s):  
Дмитро Володимирович Архірейський
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
National Liberation ◽  
Latin American Studies ◽  
Soviet Historiography

The issues of the articles published on the pages of the scientific-historical periodical "New and Contemporary History" (1985−1991, so-called Perestroika epoch) has been analysed. The complex of publications devoted to various problems of the Latin America modernity and contemporary history is identified. The author offers his classification of the identified publications by genre. It is found out that the articles and monograph reviews were the most popular genres. It was found that the overwhelming majority of the authors belonged to Moscow group, while there is absence of works prepared by the scientists who came from other Soviet republics (at least in the field of Latin America research). The conclusion about the dominance of Moscow scholarly centres in the Latin America`s history studying is made. It is shown that a tangible ideology and propaganda component in the research problems and the plots were important during Perestroika period and this approach was mostly kept until the end of the Soviet Union existence. The problems studied by the authors were as follows: national liberation struggle of the local population against Spanish colonial rule; the trade union movement and opposition to American imperialism development; historical personalities who represented the national liberation movements; political and social revolutions. An analysis of publications on the Latin America history shows that the Soviet historians did not have clear preferences regarding definite countries of the continent under study. All the Latin America countries were paid the focus of attention by the Soviet researchers. The state of Latin American studies on the pages of "New and Contemporary History" shows unsatisfactory level of this research field elaboration that is especially obvious in comparison with European and American studies.The forming of the Soviet historiography heritage in Latin American studies is of great importance for further perspectives of the Ukrainian Latin American studies development. It makes sense to assert that a careful consideration of the Soviet historiography heritage on the subject is important for the contemporary Ukrainian historiography.

Media, crime, and trust in the police in Latin America

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
Scott Liebertz ◽  
Jaclyn Bunch
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Satisfaction With Democracy ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Media ◽  
Latin American Countries

This article examines the effect crime is having on support for law enforcement in Latin America. Scholars empirically demonstrate a strong negative effect of crime on support for institutions and satisfaction with democracy. Little empirical work, however, investigates the effect of the media on attitudes toward criminal justice institutions within the Latin American context. We test whether variance in crime salience in the media across countries affects support for the police and the criminal justice system. Analyzing survey data from Latinobarometro and content analysis of newspapers in 14 Latin American countries, we find evidence that increased salience of crime reduces trust in the police across a number of different measures of media coverage.

scholarly journals Revisiting Latin American Media Democratisation Theories and the Populist Factor

2020 ◽  
pp. 630-654
Author(s):  
Edmundo Bracho-Polanco
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media And Communication

This article deals with the following question: How can Latin American media and communication theories help explain the mediatisation of populism and democracy? The article has a twofold goal: a) it contributes to the study of media, populism and democracy in the context of Latin America; b) it aims to raise awareness outside Latin America about the richness of Latin American media and communication theory for the analysis of the mediation of populism and democracy. The article introduces and engages with a variety of theories from Latin America that deal with globalisation, dependency, cultural imperialism, hybridity, and mediation, and reviews their potentials for explaining the mediatisation of populism and democracy. Theories or models of globalisation, dependency and cultural imperialism, and hybridity and mediation are reviewed analytically, as are some of their core critiques as drawn from various strands of thought, with emphasis on incorporating elements of populism theory. As interest grows in both academia and the media towards the ways in which populism is shaping the social and political spheres in the West, partly encouraged by the recent surge of populist leaders in Europe and the United States, past and current experiences and evaluation of Latin American populism can be constructive in understanding the phenomenon and its implications for communication, media and culture. This study finds that, following political shifts in the twenty-first century, Latin American populism represents a paradigm that is articulated to an important degree through communicative specificities and which can add analytical rigor to competing media and communication theories in the region.

scholarly journals Latin American armed humanitarianism in Haiti and beyond

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (55) ◽  
pp. 213-226
Author(s):  
Monica Hirst
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Humanitarian Assistance ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Civil Military Relations ◽  
Humanitarian Organizations ◽  
Military Presence ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Military Relations

MINUSTAH represents a benchmark in the link between global securitization and humanitarian practices in Latin America and the Caribbean. Regional military responsibilities in Haiti turned useful to improve and expand capabilities employed in international humanitarian crisis.  Engagement in natural disaster has been the dominating terrain in which military humanitarian action takes place in Latin America and the Caribbean. Military presence in Haiti has also contributed for experimentation in the fight against organized crime and gangs, a growing concern on the radar of international humanitarian organizations and actors. Armed humanitarianism in the region has benefitted from ties with the US, particularly the South Command, and with the UN System, particularly the DPKO. Domestic and international involvement in humanitarian assistance has become major topic in regional intra-military initiatives, stimulated by exchange of new expertise and the expansion of teamwork programs. Simultaneously, armed humanitarianism has amplified the spectrum of civil-military relations by broadening interaction with local population and organizations in different parts of Latin America and the Caribbean. Yet, armed humanitarian is controversial in the region in face of its implication for human rights protection and the strength of democratic institutions. This text intends to trace a middle ground around military and humanitarian studies conceptualization by interlacing the concepts of postmodern military and armed humanitarianism. It parts from the assumption that both concepts, while focusing on different objects, may knit well to explain post-MINUSTAH Latin American military developments.

Musical Dimensions of Indigenismo

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-57
Author(s):  
Fernando Rios
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
La Paz ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
Indigenous Music ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
Latin American Countries

In 1925, La Paz city residents observed Bolivia’s first centennial of political independence, with official state celebrations that in hindsight appear remarkably devoid of Bolivian nationalist exhibitions of indigenismo. Twenty-three years later, urban La Paz hosted another lavish commemoration, this time to honor the city’s 400th anniversary. But, in a clear departure from the 1925 centennial, the 1948 event included a “folklore” festival that was wholly devoted to Andean indigenous music-dance traditions, the Concurso Folklórico Indígena del Departamento. As the Concurso’s inclusion in the 1948 celebration suggests, mainstream La Paz criollo-mestizo views about the cultural value and meanings of Andean indigenous expressive practices had undergone a significant transformation in the twenty-three years following the 1925 centennial. This chapter elucidates this major shift, by exploring key developments in the paceño indigenista musical scene that transpired in the period from the 1920s to 1940s. Throughout Latin America, elite and middle-class interest in regionally distinctive music-dance expressions reached new heights in the early decades of the 20th century, as part of a quest among a varied cast of politicians, writers, and artists for local traditions that unmistakably demonstrated the nation’s cultural uniqueness. Indigenismo represented a manifestation of this phenomenon. The Bolivian variant of this nativist movement took inspiration from indigenista currents radiating from other Latin American countries, including Mexico and Argentina, but above all else from Peru.

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