Trust and Food Modernity in Vietnam

Figuié, Muriel; Moustier, Paule; Bricas, Nicolas; Lộc, Nguyễn Thị Tân

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-0743-0_5

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“…The use of pesticides, veterinary drugs, food additives, and industrial processes, while contributing to control biological hazards, brings chemical hazards from farm to fork. Moreover, the elongation of food chains increases the number of middlemen, which can lead to increased fraud [5]. Impacts on public health may only be visible and measured in the long term.…”

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Safety vs. Sustainability Concerns of Infant Food Users: French Results and European Perspectives

Kurtz

Thomopoulos

2021

Sustainability

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Context. In line with Sustainable Development Goals 3 “Good health and well-being” and 12 “Responsible Consumption and Production”, this paper is concerned with the fragile population of the less-than-3-years-old children. More specifically, it investigates how infant food safety is perceived at the household level and at the level of childhood and health professionals directly in contact with them. Objective. The paper aims to analyze consumer priorities and perceptions of hazards in infant foods qualitatively and quantitatively. Methodology. To do so, a survey was carried out in France on 1750 people representative of the general population. A hybrid method is proposed to analyze the results of the survey, mixing artificial intelligence and statistics. Main insights. Within the declared priorities when choosing infant food, health comes first, with a top ranking for the absence of harmful substances, followed closely by nutritional balance—far ahead of environment, ease of use and price. The results show that the rankings of the hazards that cause the most worry are globally homogeneous throughout the populations (families, professionals, etc.) and higher for chemical contaminants from agricultural practices and packaging. For health professionals, concerns are higher than in the general population for all categories of contaminants, and specific concerns such as risk related to environmental and unknown contaminants are much more prevalent. The perception of risk varies with the food considered. For infant formula in particular, users seem puzzled by somehow contradictory messages. Perspectives. The study is intended to be generalized to Europe.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Safety vs. Sustainability Concerns of Infant Food Users: French Results and European Perspectives

Kurtz

Thomopoulos

2021

Sustainability

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“…These seem to be fundamental features of the ‘industrial diet’ (Winson 2013 ), with its deep inequalities in access to safe and healthy food (Otero et al 2018 ). And we know that such transformations partly contribute to and are partly driven by, food safety challenges (Figuie et al 2019 ). But we still do not have sufficient knowledge of how consumer navigate such transformations in and through everyday food practices, and how these navigations, or negotiations, can be built upon to make diets more healthy and sustainable as well as avoid unsustainable food transformations.…”

Section: Negotiating Unsustainable Food Transformations: Concluding Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Most of the households I interviewed would however report worries about the quality of food in markets, and had developed different strategies to determine what is safe to eat. These strategies included avoiding Chinese produce, 1 using ‘trusted vendors’ and using one’s senses and personal expertise to determine whether produce is safe to eat (see also Faltmann 2019 ; Figuié et al 2019 ). As explained by a middle-class single mother in her late twenties: I can tell which one is fake.…”

Section: Food Practices and The Political Economy Of Urban Food Transformations In Vietnammentioning

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Negotiating Unsustainable Food Transformations: Development, Middle Classes and Everyday Food Practices in Vietnam

Hansen

2021

Eur J Dev Res

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Amidst calls for making food systems more sustainable, new unsustainable food transformations unfold alongside economic development. Explanations for unsustainable food transformations in emerging economies vary greatly, but there is widespread agreement that demand from new middle classes play a crucial role. Yet this demand is to a large extent co-created by systems of provision, and middle-class consumers are constantly navigating food transformations in a search for healthy and safe food. Focusing on Vietnam’s dramatic food transformations, and combining attention to the political economy of food with a social practice approach to consumption, the paper zooms in on the how middle-class households in Hanoi negotiate the rapid transformations of food systems and food environments. The paper concludes that new thinking on sustainable food systems is urgently needed and argues that vital insights can be gained by studying food practices and their interaction with everyday geographies of consumption.

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“…At local markets and between mobile street traders and the consumers, the economic exchange is embedded in a social relationship of trust. The sensory experience of being able to touch, smell or even taste the fresh produce increases trust between the seller and buyer (Figuié et al, 2019;Mele et al, 2015).…”

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“…The paper concludes that the commodity of fresh vegetables is being taken out of its commodity sphere, signifying the beginning of a process of singularization (Kopytoff, 1988). The paper's arguments follow from literature on the role of trust in economic relationships (Evers, 1995;Figuié et al, 2019;Gerber et al, 2014;Horat, 2017) and on the production of value (Graeber, 2001;Kockelman, 2012;Kopytoff, 1988). Second, the paper follows Korff's (2018) definition of the city as an innovative milieu, in which solutions can be found.…”

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Grow at home, buy local: (De)commodifying 'rural' vegetables and herbs

Kurfürst¹

2020

Global Studies

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In Vietnam, people are increasingly concerned about the absence of food standards and the danger this poses to their families' health. In Hanoi, urbanites are in search of clean and safe vegetables. Using results from fieldwork in Hanoi, this paper presents three strategies urbanites use to ensure food safety in the fresh produce they eat. They rely on trust-based strategies, when maintaining their daily practice of buying from local vendors or receiving their fresh food supply from relatives and friends residing in the countryside. In addition, urbanites are increasingly cultivating herbs and vegetables at home in roof top gardens or on fallow urban land. From the analysis of these strategies two main arguments are developed: First, by embedding the supply with fresh produce in social relationships and growing food at home urbanites actively shorten agricultural wholesale commodity chains. The value of vegetables and herbs in urban Vietnam is no longer solely determined by the monetary exchange value, but is assigned with a social exchange value. Accordingly, the paper argues that the commodity of fresh vegetables is being taken out of its commodity sphere, thus signifying the beginning of a process of singularization (Kopytoff, 1988). Second, by cultivating fresh produce in the city urbanites creatively employ the urban built environment and thence the materiality and materials that the city has to offer. The paper concludes that this identifies an affirmation of urban life and urbanites' "social creativity", their willingness to improve their living (Korff, 1991: 15), by dealing with the challenges and contingencies of the city.

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Trust and Food Modernity in Vietnam

Cited by 14 publications

References 17 publications

Safety vs. Sustainability Concerns of Infant Food Users: French Results and European Perspectives

Safety vs. Sustainability Concerns of Infant Food Users: French Results and European Perspectives

Negotiating Unsustainable Food Transformations: Development, Middle Classes and Everyday Food Practices in Vietnam

Grow at home, buy local: (De)commodifying 'rural' vegetables and herbs

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