scholarly journals The impact of globalisation, free trade and technology on food and nutrition in the new millennium

2001 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip McMichael
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
The Self ◽  
Nutritional Improvement ◽  
Corporate Form ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Food Safety And Quality

The millennium promises a dramatic politicisation of the food question. In addition to the prominent issues of food security, hunger and nutrition, bioengineering, food safety and quality, there are related issues of environmental sustainability, power, sovereignty and rights. All these issues are deeply implicated in the current corporate form of globalisation, which is transforming historic global arrangements by subordinating public institutions and the question of food security to private solutions. The present paper questions the self-evident association between globalisation and nutritional improvement.

scholarly journals Examining the impact of COVID-19 and its related lockdown on food security and job losses: A case of Kumasi, Ghana

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Adusei
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Online Marketing ◽  
Time Range ◽  
Food And Nutrition Security ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The COVID-19 and partial lockdown has brought significant effects on the entire economy, especially on food security and job losses. This study was carried out in Asokwa Municipal with the objective of examining the impact of COVID-19 disease and its related lockdown on food and nutrition security and job losses. The study site form part of the cities in Ghana to experience the partial lockdown, hence it qualifies for the selection. Both primary and secondary data were used. By means of purposive sampling technique, fifty respondents were selected as sample size. The study employed a qualitative approach with a descriptive and narrative posture to the presentation, discussion and analysis of data. Open-ended questionnaire and a checklist were used for data collection through semi-structured interviews. The results revealed that, food and nutrition insecurity, job loss and income reductions are still very common, affecting participants livelihood. Disproportionally affected are households whose income comes from farming, transporters, informal labour, as well as marketers.It was concluded that food insecurity is not outside the impact of COVID-19 and its associated partial lockdown. Food and nutrition security are the global concern at present circumstances. The supply chain has been hit hardest by COVID-19, which causes food insecurity of most vulnerable segment of population which put them at risk. And also, most of the migrant, informal, seasonal farm workers were losing their jobs which may affect their demand for food. Therefore, the government should step-up the measures to control the pandemic without disturbing the food supply chain. The development and use of online marketing strategies where people can make orders of various produce and booked for purchases and or deliveries during a stated time range should be promoted.

scholarly journals Effective Segmentation of Organic Food Consumers in Vietnam Using Food-Related Lifestyles

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Le Van Huy ◽  
Mai Chi ◽  
Antonio Lobo ◽  
Ninh Nguyen ◽  
Phan Long
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Organic Food ◽  
Market Segments ◽  
Organic Food Consumption ◽  
Food Safety And Quality ◽  
Practical Implications

The consumer purchase of environmentally friendly products like organic food is essential to environmental sustainability. This study applies the unique food-related lifestyles (FRL) approach to segment organic food consumers in Vietnam, a country in which there is increasing concern about food safety and quality. The FRL model was intentionally selected because it enables better understanding of how consumers employ food and its culinary aspects to achieve certain values in their lives. Data were obtained from 203 organic food consumers, and a two-step cluster analysis established three identifiable market segments which we named “Conservatives”, “Trendsetters”, and “Unengaged”. The Conservatives were interested in the health aspects of food and preferred natural products. The Trendsetters were interested in healthy food, liked to cook, and held a positive attitude toward organic food and local food products. The Unengaged consumers were not concerned about food-related issues, and they reported the least consumption of organic food. The findings of this study have important academic and practical implications for marketers, policymakers, organizations dealing with food, and socio-environmental organizations that aim to promote organic food consumption. Importantly, marketing efforts should focus on enhancing consumers’ knowledge about organic food and their love of cooking, as well as ensuring adequate availability of organic food.

scholarly journals Conceptual approaches to the formation of regional food security strategy in the context of sustainable development

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 42-50
Author(s):  
Marianna Stehnei ◽  
Inna Irtyshcheva ◽  
Yevheniia Boiko ◽  
Lida Rogatina ◽  
Ksenya Khaustova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
Black Sea Region ◽  
Regional Food ◽  
The Impact

The food safety of the region is a fundamental foundation of the country’s economic security and one of the most important prerequisites for sustainable development. Unfortunately, the problems of ensuring food security of the regions of Ukraine are not only resolved, but also ultimately aggravated, which negatively affects the quality of life of the population and the development of human potential. An important step in solving the problem of physical and economic food availability to all population is developing a regional food safety strategy. In this regard, the purpose of the article is to develop methodological tools for modeling the region’s food security strategy taking into account the peculiarities of its development and existing production and resource potential. The authors explained the concept of “food security strategy”, “food safety potential of the region” and methods for assessing its main components. The author’s model of the food security strategy creation was developed and implemented on the example of the Ukrainian Black Sea region. This model can be used to monitor the situation with food provision, to model the impact on the state of the food supply of individual strategic decisions and to determine the causes of deviations and growth reserves in any region irrespective of its size or administrative status.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Impact of the External Audit in the Functioning of Health Public Institutions "Cases of the General Hospitals of Reference of Kabondo and Makiso/Kisangani of 2011 and 2014"

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Assani Ramazani Raymond ◽  
Isetcha Tawiti Désiré
Keyword(s):  
Financial Management ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
The Self ◽  
External Audit ◽  
General Hospitals ◽  
Good Image ◽  
The Impact

Objectives: This study aims at evaluating the effects of the external audit on the countable and financial management of the General Hospitals of Reference of Makiso/Kisangani and Kabondo. Methods: We worked with a sample with reasoned choice. It is about a descriptive study of the retrospective type which we associate the analytical method. The data collected in this study after the examination, were transformed into frequency, and then, expressed as a percentage. Results: For the HGR of Makiso/Kisangani, the receipts carried out for the audited period account for 55.56% against 45.44% for the not-audited period, that is to say a variation of 10.12%. While for the HGR of Kabondo, the receipts carried out for the audited period account for 63.81% against 36.19% for the not-audited period, that is to say a variation of 27.62%. Conclusion: We noticed that for the audited period the medical structures under study presented a performance by profitability, the permanent follow-up of its accountancy which reduces the risks of the frauds and errors as well as the financial hemorrhages, the reliability of financial information due to the self-checking and the credibility of the institution near the external contractors, since it presents a good image.

scholarly journals Food and nutrition security under global trade: a relation-driven agent-based global trade model

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 201587
Author(s):  
Jiaqi Ge ◽  
J. Gareth Polhill ◽  
Jennie I. Macdiarmid ◽  
Nuala Fitton ◽  
Pete Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Food And Nutrition Security ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Trade Model ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Macro And Micronutrients ◽  
The Impact

This paper addresses the highly relevant and timely issues of global trade and food security by developing an empirically grounded, relation-driven agent-based global trade model. Contrary to most price-driven trade models in the literature, the relation-driven agent-based global trade model focuses on the role of relational factors such as trust, familiarity, trade history and conflicts in countries' trade behaviour. Moreover, the global trade model is linked to a comprehensive nutrition formula to investigate the impact of trade on food and nutrition security, including macro and micronutrients. Preliminary results show that global trade improves the food and nutrition security of countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Trade also promotes a healthier and more balanced diet, as countries have access to an increased variety of food. The effect of trade in enhancing nutrition security, with an adequate supply of macro and micronutrients, is universal across nutrients and countries. As researchers call for a holistic and multifactorial approach to food security and climate change (Hammond and Dubé 2012 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 109 , 12 356–12 363. ( doi:10.1073/pnas.0913003109 )), the paper is one of the first to develop an integrated framework that consists of socio-economic, geopolitical, nutrition, environmental and agri-food systems to tackle these global challenges. Given the ongoing events of Brexit, the US–China trade war and the global COVID-19 pandemic, the paper will provide valuable insights on the role of trade in improving the food and nutrition security across countries.

Essential food and nutrition knowledge and skills for primary school children: Australian parents' opinions

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gozde Aydin ◽  
Claire Margerison ◽  
Anthony Worsley ◽  
Alison Booth
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Nutrition Information ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Component Score ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
Food And Nutrition

PurposeThis paper examines the views of Australian primary school parents regarding the food and nutrition education (FNE) curriculum. Associations with personal values (Universalism and Hedonism) and demographic measures were also explored.Design/methodology/approachAn online survey was conducted among 787 parents in March 2021. Parents rated the importance of 17 FNE topics. They were also asked about their support for six curriculum improvements and to state their own improvement suggestions.FindingsParents viewed the “Effect of food on health” and “Food hygiene” as the most important topics. Three FNE components were derived: (1) food safety and preparation, (2) health and nutrition information, (3) food origins and environmental sustainability. The “Food safety and preparation” component score was associated with both universalism-nature and hedonism values but negatively associated with parental education. The “Health and nutrition information” component score was associated with universalism-nature value and main language spoken at home. Lastly, the “Food origins and environmental sustainability” component score was associated with universalism-nature value. The two personal values, universalism-nature and hedonism, were more strongly associated with parents' views of curriculum topics than parental demographic characteristics. Parents had several criticisms of current FNE, including school food environments not resonating with FNE taught in the classroom and that FNE might increase the risk of eating disorders. They also suggested that the FNE curriculum should support both parents and teachers by providing relevant resources and training.Originality/valueAustralian parents' views of the importance of FNE topics and how to improve FNE in primary schools have been under-examined.

scholarly journals Bezpieczeństwo żywnościowe Polski na tle wybranych krajów Europy Wschodniej

2018 ◽  
pp. 41-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakub Kraciuk
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
The State ◽  
Global Food Security ◽  
Food Quality And Safety ◽  
Main Determinants ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
Access To Food ◽  
The Impact

The aim of the article is to present the state of food security in Poland and the three neighbouring Eastern European countries: Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. The analysed countries differ in terms of the size of their economic potential, the size of the economies, and the level of their development. The economy of each country is also marked by specific characteristics. In the first part, the paper presents the theoretical basis of food security as an element of economic security. In the next part, the characteristics of the analysed countries are presented showing their specificity and main determinants of development. The empirical part describes the state of food security in the examined countries using the Global Food Security Index, which was developed at the request of DuPont by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Three components of the food safety index are presented: price availability, access to food as well as food quality and safety. Considering some determinants of food safety components, an attempt was made to assess the impact of economic development of individual countries on their food security

scholarly journals Food and Nutrition Security as a Measure of Resilience in the Barents Region

Urban Science ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dele Raheem
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Healthy Diet ◽  
Traditional Foods ◽  
Food And Nutrition Security ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Barents Region ◽  
Food And Nutrition

Food and nutrition security builds resilience in a society when people have access to safe and nutritious foods. The Barents region, covering the Northern parts of Finland, Norway, and Sweden, and the North-western part of Russia, seeks common goals that include the well-being of the region’s inhabitants by ensuring preservation of local culture and social and environmental sustainability. This paper reviews existing literature on food and nutrition security in relation to building resilience and promoting well-being in the region. Amongst the local communities, traditional foods have served as a major source of healthy diet that ensures food security. Access to secure, nutritious, and healthy food is one of the aspects offering greater human security and societal stability. Traditional food has served as a major source of healthy diet, in particular, in the remote sparsely populated Barents region and amongst the local communities of the region. However, there is concern about global climate change and its effect on the region and pollution from human activities, such as the extractive industrial activities, that are detrimental to safe and secure food supply chain. In this paper, I highlight the contribution of traditional foods to food security in the Barents region. In addition, the paper emphasized that value addition to these traditional foods will help to stimulate the economy by creating new jobs. Ultimately, ensuring food and nutrition security in a sustainable way within the region will help to build resilience and promote culture and ecology with a view to offering greater human and societal security.

scholarly journals Decoding Heavy Metal Stress Signalling in Plants: Towards Improved Food Security and Safety

Plants ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1781
Author(s):  
Marshall Keyster ◽  
Lee-Ann Niekerk ◽  
Gerhard Basson ◽  
Mogamat Carelse ◽  
Olalekan Bakare ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Metal Uptake ◽  
Heavy Metal Stress ◽  
Cellular Damage ◽  
Heavy Metal Uptake ◽  
Toxic Heavy Metal ◽  
The Impact

The mining of heavy metals from the environment leads to an increase in soil pollution, leading to the uptake of heavy metals into plant tissue. The build-up of toxic metals in plant cells often leads to cellular damage and senescence. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to produce plants with improved tolerance to heavy metals for food security, as well as to limit heavy metal uptake for improved food safety purposes. To achieve this goal, our understanding of the signaling mechanisms which regulate toxic heavy metal uptake and tolerance in plants requires extensive improvement. In this review, we summarize recent literature and data on heavy metal toxicity (oral reference doses) and the impact of the metals on food safety and food security. Furthermore, we discuss some of the key events (reception, transduction, and response) in the heavy metal signaling cascades in the cell wall, plasma membrane, and cytoplasm. Our future perspectives provide an outlook of the exciting advances that will shape the plant heavy metal signaling field in the near future.

Consumer behaviour and corporate social responsibility: an empirical study of Expo 2015

2017 ◽  
Vol 119 (8) ◽  
pp. 1826-1838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gennaro Civero ◽  
Vincenzo Rusciano ◽  
Debora Scarpato
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Buying Behaviour ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the attitudes of people towards issues of food safety, food security and sustainability. For this, an empirical study was conducted on visitors to the event Milan Expo 2015. Particular attention was paid to any greater propensity to purchase products from socially responsible agri-food companies and whether the event might have contributed to enrich the baggage of their knowledge on the issues of sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) and to influence future buying behaviour. Design/methodology/approach Different groups of visiting consumers were identified through cluster analysis in order to segment and divide visitors into groups based on their approach to food safety, food security and sustainability, their willingness to pay for products from companies practising CSR, and the impact of the event on their future buying behaviour. Findings The results showed a positive attitude of respondents towards issues of food safety, food security and sustainability in general and to the purchase of sustainable food products. However, due to shortcomings in the communication strategy used by companies attending the event, the sample of visitors did not enrich their knowledge on sustainability and CSR. The impact of Expo 2015 on future buying behaviour was far from impressive. Originality/value The findings are particularly useful for the future development of the reputation and profitability of food companies, for the enrichment of knowledge concerning CSR-oriented food companies and to increase the price of products from socially responsible agri-food companies.

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