scholarly journals A simple global food system model

2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (No. 4) ◽  
pp. 188-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Jiang ◽  
X. Cui ◽  
X. Xu ◽  
Y. Jiang ◽  
M. Rounsevell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food System ◽  
Supply System ◽  
Trade Flows ◽  
System Model ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Economic Developments ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Socio Economic Factors ◽  
Global Food Supply

In this study, we develop a simple dimension model to construct the food system in response to the population growth, the land use change and various socio-economic developments. The model simulates the consumption and production of agricultural goods in the individual countries, and maintains the global balance of food through the international trade flows between countries. Although there are some biases in the model results at the country levels, we suggest that such a simple model is feasible for simulating the global food supply system and assessing the uncertainties coming from various environmental and socio-economic factors.  

scholarly journals The Impact of Resource and Nutritional Resilience on the Global Food Supply System

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 751 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne Martindale ◽  
Mark Swainson ◽  
Sonal Choudhary
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Food System ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Critical Control Points ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Global Food Supply

Pressure points in global food supply where resilience in supply chains can be limited or controlled are the equivalent of Critical Control Points in food safety systems. The approach of using critical control in supply chains can provide insights for nutritional improvement, sustainable food trade and food waste reduction. The pressure points determine the provision of a secure and sustainable food system where the outcomes of reducing their criticality are identified in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and other international programmes. These seek to reduce climate change impact and improve public health provision. While policy makers are rightly focussed on these targets, the data analysis methods required to rank and associate resource flow pressure points with commercial food supply chains and nutritional goals remain untested. Here, we show how methodologies can identify where opportunities to tackle future criticality exist, and where they are currently being overlooked for food categories that have the greatest consumer and dietary protein demand. The analysis provides insights that identify where latent restrictions in resilience can occur, so that the future risk of food insecurity is reduced.

UNDERSTANDING THE DESERTION OF SOUTH CAROLINIAN SOLDIERS DURING THE FINAL YEARS OF THE CONFEDERACY

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 657-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
PATRICK J. DOYLE
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Thought Process ◽  
Simple Representation ◽  
The World ◽  
Return Home ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

ABSTRACTAlthough the American Civil War is perhaps the most written about event in American history, the issue of desertion has often retained a neglected position in the conflict's dense historiography. Those historians who have studied military absenteeism during the war have tended to emphasize socio-economic factors as motivating men to leave the army and return home. The Register of Confederate Deserters, a list of southern soldiers who crossed into Union lines and took an oath of loyalty in order to try and return home, can provide a different look at these men. By studying the South Carolinian men on the Register, as a case-study, we can see that ideological, as well as socio-economic, motivations occupied the thought process of Civil War deserters. Moreover, the act of desertion was rarely a simple representation of the thoughts of the individual but of the opinions and feelings of his family and community as well. As such, studying Confederate desertion not only helps us understand the issues of loyalty and nationalism during the Civil War, but also the way in which nineteenth-century southerners conceptualized the world around them.

scholarly journals Public health nutrition and food policy

2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 591-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Caraher ◽  
John Coveney
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Food Choice ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Public Health Nutrition ◽  
Food Market ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Developed World ◽  
Global Food

AbstractFood in its many manifestations allows us to explore the global control of health and to examine the ways in which food choice is moulded by many interests. The global food market is controlled by a small number of companies who operate a system that delivers ‘cheap’ food to the countries of the developed world. This ‘cheap’ food comes at a price, which externalises costs to the nation state in terms of health consequences (diabetes, coronary heart disease and other food-related diseases) and to the environment in terms of pollution and the associated clean-up strategies. Food policy has not to any great extent dealt with these issues, opting instead for an approach based on nutrition, food choice and biomedical health. Ignoring wider elements of the food system including issues of ecology and sustainability constrains a broader understanding within public health nutrition. Here we argue that public health nutrition, through the medium of health promotion, needs to address these wider issues of who controls the food supply, and thus the influences on the food chain and the food choices of the individual and communities. Such an upstream approach to food policy (one that has been learned from work on tobacco) is necessary if we are seriously to influence food choice.

scholarly journals Untapped power of food system by-products to increase global food supply

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vilma Sandström ◽  
Anna Chrysafi ◽  
Marjukka Lamminen ◽  
Max Troell ◽  
Mika Jalava ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Supply ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Crop Residues ◽  
Food System ◽  
Free Food ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
By Products ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Aquaculture Production ◽  
Global Food Supply

Abstract Many animal feeds compete for resources with human food production. The current use of food system by-products and residues as feed could potentially be increased to reduce the competition. We gathered a harmonised global food system material flow database for crop, livestock and aquaculture production including the availability of food system by-products. This allowed us to analyse the potential to replace the food-competing feedstuff, here cereals, whole fish, vegetable oils and pulses, that currently account for 11% of total feed used globally, with available food system by-products. While considering the nutritional requirements in animal production, we found that the replacement could free food-grade feeds for human consumption and increase the current food supply in kcal by 11-17% (6-11% if the use of crop residues is not accounted for) and in terms of protein 11-15% (9-14%). Our results thus indicate that the increased feed use of by-products has considerable potential, particularly when used in combination with other measures, in the much needed transition towards more sustainable and circular food systems.

L'Abstentionnisme électoral et vote blanc et nul en Belgique

Res Publica ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-226
Author(s):  
Johan Ackaert ◽  
Lieven De Winter ◽  
Anne-Marie Aish ◽  
André-Paul Frognier
Keyword(s):  
Party Identification ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Compulsory Voting ◽  
The Social ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

In spite op compulsory voting, the number of non-voters increased at the last general elections in Belgium to 7.3 per cent. This evolution can largely be explained by demographic factors. The number of blank or invalid voters reaches nearly the same level. Concerning this form of political non-participation, we noticed considerable differences occur between the types of elections (local, provincial, House, Senate, European) due to factors such as the importance and the proximity of the proper institution, the social distance between candidate and citizen and the main issue of the elections.The analysis of both phenomena over time at the level of the individual voters based on surveys shows that electoral absenteeism is rather accidental, white blanc and invalid voting is more permanent. From the analysis of absenteeism and blanc and invalid voting emerge on the one hand socio-economic factors (like age, gender, professional activity, income, marital status and family composition) which jeopardize electoral participation in a direct or indirect way, and on the other hand, attitudes and behaviour reflecting political indifference, alienation and hostility (like low levels of political interest, information, knowledge, satisfaction, party identification, and participation).

scholarly journals Individual Labor Mobility: Categorical Definitions and Priorities of State Regulation in Ukraine

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 104-112
Author(s):  
Olga Zolotaryova
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Labor Mobility ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

The purpose of the article to determine the category of "individual labor mobility", to reveal its methodological foundations of research and justify the need for it and the direction of government regulation. On the basis of official statistical data have been identified and analyzed the socio-economic factors, which have now negative impact on the individual labor mobility in Ukraine (unsatisfactory dynamics and structure of incomes of the population, a significant social inequalities and lack of a strong middle class, lack of labor market flexibilisation, deformed economic system of the country). Based on the analysis set forth the priorities of state regulation of individual labor mobility in Ukraine.

scholarly journals Telecoupling through tomato trade: what consumers do not know about the tomato on their plate

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria-Jose Ibarrola-Rivas ◽  
Antonio J. Castro ◽  
Thomas Kastner ◽  
Sanderine Nonhebel ◽  
Francis Turkelboom
Keyword(s):  
Food System ◽  
Supply System ◽  
West African ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Food Chains ◽  
Large Share ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Distance Effects ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Food

Non-technical abstract A large share of our food comes from international supply food chains that are difficult to trace. Therefore, consumers are not aware of their environmental and social effects. We analysed the tomato supply system for Germany. Tomatoes consumed in Germany are produced either in The Netherlands by Polish workers and using large amounts of energy, or in Spain by West African workers and depleting the aquifer. The analysis shows the long-distance effects of food consumption that should be considered when designing strategies for a sustainable global food system. Comparable results can be expected for other food products traded around the world.

scholarly journals KEPUTUSAN INDIVIDU USIA KERJA UNTUK BERMIGRASI: BUKTI DARI DATA LONGITUDINAL DI JAWA TIMUR

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Arbain Agus Wijaya ◽  
Munawar Ismail ◽  
Arif Hoetoro
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression Analysis ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

Migration is not only limited because of the driving and pulling factors from the area of origin and destination. Individual socio-economic factors are important factors that determine the decision to migrate. This study aims to analyze the influence of individual socio-economic factors on migration in East Java Province. The panel data used are longitudinal data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS)-4 and the IFLS-5. In this study, the individual social factors consisted of age, sex, education, marital status, family size, and residence characteristics. Moreover, the individual economic factors comprise land ownership for agriculture, ownership of health insurance, loan ownership, and poverty status. By employing the binary logistic regression analysis, we found that migration in the population of East Java Province was influenced by age, marital status, education, and characteristics of residence as social factors as well as agricultural land ownership and health insurance ownership as economic factors.

Systems for Managing Child Maltreatment in Australia: A Study of the Six States

1986 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Boss
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Deviant Behaviour ◽  
Complex Situation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Parent Relationships ◽  
Support Resources ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

Child abuse constitutes a social problem whose dimensions we cannot yet quite grasp and whose causes are as multi-faceted as they are difficult to identify. Over the past two decades or so, ever since the re-awakening of interest in the topic, there has been an abundance of theorising and speculating about causes of child abuse. Theories which attempt to explain child abuse have ranged from the individual - psychological and specific deviant behaviour (like alcoholism and other types of addiction) - to socio-economic factors, faulty child-parent relationships, lack of family support resources and many more. Each of these theories, even if underdeveloped, has something to contribute to our understanding but none, by itself, has enabled us to say that if only we concentrate our resources on it we will be able to tackle child abuse at its very roots. What we have begun to learn is that we are dealing with a complex situation.

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