A consumption-oriented approach to measuring regional food self-sufficiency
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Measuring food consumption
F ood consumption surveys aim at determining the nutritional value of the diet The standard approach (I) consists in weighing the total amount of foodstuffs used for cooking in a number of families, which implies that a team of local assistants has to be hired and trained. This method is the most accurate but very costly as it has to be applied to a sufficiently large sample and be repeated to ...
متن کاملFood self-sufficiency and international trade: a false dichotomy?
In the wake of the 2007-08 food crisis that brought higher and more volatile food prices, many countries expressed increased interest in pursuing policies to bolster their levels of food self-sufficiency. At the same time, there has also been widespread critique of policies designed to support food self-sufficiency, on the grounds that they are inefficient and can disrupt trade. This debate has...
متن کاملCereals, the world food problem and UK self-sufficiency.
In the United States, 91% of the maize, 64% of the barley and 88% of the oat crop is fed to animals. If all the cereals fed to animals in that country were available for human beings, it would be sufficient to feed not only the people of India, as stated in a recent publication (Ulbricht, 1976a), but in fact the whole of India and China. I am citing this fact not to suggest that US cereals coul...
متن کاملComparative Advantage, Self-sufficiency and Food Security in Iran: Case Study of Wheat Commodity
Food security has a dynamic notion during the time and may be affected by various domestic and global factors.Nevertheless, Iranian policy makers consider food security as same as self-sufficiency in agricultural food products, particularly wheat production. However, self-sufficiency can contribute to food security only if it is in coincidences with comparative advantage and sustainable resourc...
متن کاملExperimental approach to measuring functional food consumption for risk factor surveillance.
OBJECTIVE To develop and integrate the assessment of functional foods (FuF; manufactured foods with altered composition carrying a health claim) consumption into an existing risk factor surveillance system. DESIGN FuF market research followed by an experimental FuF intake study incorporated into an ongoing community-based survey. Concurrent completion of a self-administered semi-quantitative ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Food Security
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1876-4517,1876-4525
DOI: 10.1007/s12571-020-01033-y