Globalisation of agrifood systems and sustainable nutrition

Qaim, Matin

doi:10.1017/s0029665116000598

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“…To sum up, our counterfactual results show that specializing in crop or livestock farming can help to better exploit their comparative advantages in farming systems. As noted by Qaim (), harnessing comparative advantage in food production and globalization of agrifood systems is critical for sustainable nutrition.…”

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Does mixed crop‐livestock farming lead to less diversified diets among smallholders? Evidence from Laos

Parvathi

2018

Agricultural Economics

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Malnourishment continues to remain a challenge in developing countries. As the undernourished are largely smallholder farmers, it is widely assumed that farm diversification and mixed crop-livestock agricultural systems can help alleviate this problem. However, empirical evidence in this context is limited. Hence, we use a two-year panel's data from Laos to examine whether farm production diversity as well as a mixed crop-livestock farming system improves household dietary diversity among smallholder farmer. The results from the fixed effects regression indicate that although farm production diversity does lead to a higher dietary diversity, the effect diminishes with continued farm diversification. The counterfactual analysis from the endogenous switching regression reveals that mixed crop-livestock farming systems do not necessarily enhance dietary diversity. However, we further find that purchasing food from the markets plays an important role in enhancing the dietary diversity of rural smallholder farmers.JEL classifications: Q1, Q10, Q18, Q19

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Does mixed crop‐livestock farming lead to less diversified diets among smallholders? Evidence from Laos

Parvathi

2018

Agricultural Economics

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“…Food systems in Asian developing countries are undergoing rapid transformation (Pingali ; Mergenthaler et al . ; Reardon and Timmer ; Qaim ). Retail structures are changing and modern food retail formats (e.g.…”

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Does food market modernisation lead to improved dietary diversity and diet quality for urban Vietnamese households?

Rupa

Umberger

Zeng

2019

Aus J Agri & Res Econ

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This study investigates the possible mechanisms through which modern food markets may affect Vietnamese households’ dietary diversity and diet quality using data from a survey of 1,700 urban households with seven‐day food recall. We calculate Household Dietary Diversity Scores to measure dietary diversity, and use consumption frequencies of micronutrients (vitamin A and heme iron) and a macronutrient (protein) to create a household measure of diet quality. We estimate a Poisson regression model using a two‐step control function approach to address the potential endogeneity of our key explanatory variable, modern market food expenditure shares. Higher modern market food expenditure share is positively and significantly associated with consumption frequency of heme iron, but there are no significant associations with consumption of vitamin A and protein. We further explore indirect linkages between food expenditure shares and dietary diversity, which in turn, may be linked to household diet quality. Results from a system of equations show that the food expenditure share variable has no significant relationship with dietary diversity, but dietary diversity is positively and significantly associated with diet quality. Our results indicate that alone, policies which encourage ‘food market modernisation’ are not enough to improve diet quality in urban Vietnam.

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“…For example, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) statistics show that global rice production has increased by more than 250% since 1960 (faostat.fao.org). However, by displacing traditional crops and reducing the price of major cereals relative to other nutrient-rich foods, such as fruits, vegetables, and pulses, there is evidence that dietary diversity may have inadvertently been undermined in some cases [10][11][12][13]. As such, it is unsurprising that progress toward addressing hidden hunger has lagged progress in addressing chronic hunger [14].…”

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Value Chains and Diet Quality: A Review of Impact Pathways and Intervention Strategies

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Low and middle-income countries increasingly face a triple burden of malnutrition encompassing undernutrition, micronutrient deficiency, and excessive energy consumption contributing to overweight and obesity. Food systems are also becoming more complex, supported by investments in food processing and retailing. Traditional approaches addressing hunger, typically based on agricultural development, are deemed insufficient alone to address the problem and attention is now being directed to food value chains, although experience is currently limited. To assess the state of science and identify knowledge gaps, an integrative review of the broad topic of value chains and diet quality was undertaken, with particular focus on interventions and their related impact pathways. Interventions were classified according to their primary orientation: to increase the availability, accessibility, or desirability of nutritious food. We identified 24 separate interventions associated with 10 different impact pathways, demonstrating the numerous entry points and large potential for value chain interventions to influence diet quality. However, case study evidence regarding effectiveness remains scant. Most studies addressed individual nutrient-rich commodities that could address a nutritional deficiency in the community of interest. Rarely was overall diet quality assessed, and future studies could benefit from taking a wider perspective of dietary patterns and food substitutions. The value chain analytical approach was deemed valuable due to its consumer orientation that seeks to understand how food products are used and what motivates their choice. The systems perspective is also important as it considers the roles of actors involved in food production, distribution, marketing, and regulation. However, few studies directly engaged with the subject of the local food environment as the bridge connecting food production and food choice. The challenge is to combat the increasing prevalence of processed foods of low nutritional value through interventions that lead to nutritious food becoming more conveniently available, affordable, and desirable.

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Globalisation of agrifood systems and sustainable nutrition

Cited by 124 publications

References 70 publications

Does mixed crop‐livestock farming lead to less diversified diets among smallholders? Evidence from Laos

Does mixed crop‐livestock farming lead to less diversified diets among smallholders? Evidence from Laos

Does food market modernisation lead to improved dietary diversity and diet quality for urban Vietnamese households?

Value Chains and Diet Quality: A Review of Impact Pathways and Intervention Strategies

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