Foodconsumption and nutrition in rural areas of Madhya Pradesh, India (with special reference to Sagar division)
Consumer habit ; Countryside ; Food ; Foodconsumption ; India ; Madhya Pradesh ; Village
The A. presents systematic and interpretative analyses of per capita foodstuffs consumption and nutritional level in the rural areas of Sagar division. The survey reveals that the existing food habits in the villages lead to an imbalance of food
Metropolitan food systems in developing countries: the perspective of urban metabolism
Cities of hunger. Urban food systems in developing countries
Food ; Foodconsumption ; Food security ; Social reproduction ; Third World ; Town ; Urban supply
The paper focuses on urban food metabolism, by using the concept of the food system which includes the sub-systems of production, supply, distribution and consumption of food.
Consumption ; Europe ; Food ; Foodconsumption ; Food habit ; Food product ; Living standard ; Nineteenth Century ; Twentieth Century ; World
This article investigates the relationship between total national calorie consumption per capita per day and income, the proportion of all calories derived from livestock products and income, and the proportion of all calories derived from cereals
In Khartoum, availability of food is not a major constraint in the dynamics of the food system. Of more significance for the configuration of the space of vulnerability are the processes related to affordability and accessibility.
The paper explores the movements and placings that work to configure food as waste. Drawing on ethnographic examples, the A. explores the shifting contours and gradients that reduce the possibilities for disposing of food through conduits in which
Consumption ; Development ; Foodconsumption ; Living standard ; World
In this article Engel's statements about the relationship between food expenditure are investigated for 80 countries. Food expenditure as a percentage of all expenditure is shown to have a distinctive geographical distribution , and is related
Social change and fresh-food marketing in Singapore
There are changes in the patterns of foodconsumption, marketing behaviour, fresh food supplies and their distributing systems. The A. analyses how several factors have affected the changes, examines the major elements of the fresh-food distributing
systems, and outlines the problems of spatial conflict between the formal and informal sectors in fresh-food retailing.
A preliminary study of food problem in China and its countermeasures
China is and also will be confronted with serious difficulties in feeding its population because of scarce agricultural land resources and the rapidly growing foodconsumption needs. To cope with this situation, it is necessary to increase food
production by making full utilization of food resources, intensifying agricultural land use, changing import structure of grain, and controlling non-essential food import.
Bibliography ; Cultural studies ; Food ; Foodconsumption ; Food habit ; United States of America
Recent publications organized into the following categories: ethnic/regional foodways; individual foods; eating out; marketing; history and trends; perspectives of anthropology, folklore, psychology and sociology; bibliographies. - (DWG)
Agricultural production ; Data ; Famine;Starvation ; Food ; Foodconsumption ; Food resources ; India ; Malnutrition ; Poverty ; Regional disparities
Using average nutritive values of food actually consumed by individuals, the paper identifies regional concentration of hunger (food poverty) and its changes over time (1973-83) in rural India. There is a heavy concentration of hunger in the coastal
states which has persisted over time. Hunger seams to have increased in the states that are relatively prosperous. However there has been a general improvement in the quality of food intake.