Trade, food, diet, and health : perspectives and policy options
Examines how the global food trade regime - the trade of food across national borders, international and regional trade agreements, the process of trade and investment liberalization and the growth of transnational food corporations - affects what people eat and, by implication, their health.
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Chichester, West Sussex ; Ames, Iowa :
Blackwell Publication ,
2010
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Trade, health, and dietary change
- 2. An overview of global food trade
- 3. The influence of trade liberalisation on global dietary change : the case of vegetable oils, meat, and highly-processed foods
- 4. Global trade of fruits and vegetables and the role of consumer demand
- 5. International trade, food and diet costs, and the global obesity epidemic
- 6. Trade, transnational corporations, and food consumption : a global value chain approach
- 7. Supermarkets, food, and diet in developing countries : emerging evidence, issues, and hypotheses
- 8. The European Union's common agricultural policy and the European diet : is there a link?
- 9. The effect of trade and trade policy on diet and health in the Pacific Islands
- 10. Food imports and dietary change : a perspective from Thailand
- 11. Tackling childhood obesity in an era of trade liberalization
- 12. National food regulations and the WTO agreement on sanitary and phytosanitary measures : implications for trade-related measures to promote healthy diets
- 13. The potential of the Codex Alimentarius to promote healthy diets worldwide
- 14. Agricultural trade policy instruments to promote healthy diets in developing countries : an assessment of the opportunities within the framework of the WTO agreement on agriculture and the Doha development agenda
- 15. The impact of international trade and investment rules on the ability of governments to implement interventions to address obesity : a case study from the European Charter on counteracting obesity