Food Policy Old And New

This book demonstrates the need for a new food policy to deal with the challenges to the global food system posed by globalisation, urbanisation, technical change and industrialisation. Comprising a series of papers written by experts from Denmark, Italy, the UK and the US, it points out that the food system is no longer about moving basic staples from farm to plate; nor is it concerned mainly with famine and food insecurity. Food policy, the contributors suggest, now needs to encompass issues such as obesity, food safety, and competition policy in the retail sector. The book concludes by warning that addressing these pressing concerns needs to be on the agenda of policy makers throughout the world.

Simon Maxwell is Director of the Overseas Development Institute. Previously, he has worked for the UN Development Programme in Kenya and India, for the British aid programme in Bolivia, and for the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.

Rachel Slater is Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute, London. Her doctoral and post-doctoral work focused on urban and rural livelihoods in South Africa. She has also worked in India, Lesotho, Mozambique and Zambia.

List of Figures

viii

List of Tables

ix

List of Boxes

x

List of Acronyms

xi

About the Overseas Development Institute

xiv

Notes on Contributors

xv

Preface

xix

Food Policy Old and New

1

(20)

Simon Maxwell

Rachel Slater

Introduction

1

(2)

What are the issues?

3

(6)

Do the changes matter?

9

(5)

What might be done?

14

(4)

Conclusion

18

(3)

Food Industrialisation and Food Power: Implications for Food Governance

21

(12)

Tim Lang

Introduction

21

(1)

Changes in industrial and post-industrial food supply chains

22

(2)

Redefining the market: the emergence of high levels of concentration

24

(3)

The role of the state

27

(1)

The complexity of consumer sovereignty

28

(3)

Possible sources of change

31

(2)

Food and Poverty: Insights from the `North'

33

(10)

Elizabeth Dowler

Introduction

33

(1)

The social construction of malnutrition

34

(1)

Poverty and food poverty

35

(3)

State, private and voluntary sector responses

38

(2)

Conclusions

40

(3)

The Nutrition Transition in the Developing World

43

(14)

Barry M. Popkin

Introduction

43

(2)

Dynamics of the food system and related changes

45

(8)

What are the costs?

53

(1)

Why have these changes occurred?

54

(1)

Policy options

55

(2)

Redirecting the Diet Transition: What Can Food Policy Do?

57

(14)

Lawrence Haddad

Introduction

57

(1)

Drivers of diet and nutrition trends

58

(3)

What can food policy do?

61

(2)

Supply-side interventions

63

(2)

Demand-side interventions

65

(3)

Information and analysis gaps

68

(1)

Conclusion

69

(2)

Value-chain Governance, Public Regulation and Entry Barriers in the Global Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Chain into the EU

71

(10)

Peter Gibbon

Introduction

71

(1)

Kenyan fresh vegetables and UK supermarkets

72

(2)

Supermarket power and public regulation

74

(5)

Conclusion

79

(2)

Changing Food Systems in India: Resource-sharing and Marketing Arrangements for Vegetable Production in Andhra Pradesh

81

(12)

Priya Deshingkar

Usha Kulkarni

Laxman Rao

Sreenivas Rao

Introduction

81

(1)

How far has the vegetable value chain developed in India?

82

(3)

The `Golden Revolution' in Andhra Pradesh

85

(2)

Case-study evidence from Andhra Pradesh

87

(3)

Conclusion

90

(3)

Small Producer Participation in Global Food Systems: Policy Opportunities and Constraints

93

(14)

Sheila Page

Rachel Slater

Introduction

93

(1)

Unpacking the barriers -- obstacles to small producer market access

93

(5)

Intervention options

98

(6)

Conclusion

104

(3)

Food and Agricultural Biotechnology Policy: How Much Autonomy Can Developing Countries Exercise?

107

(12)

Erik Millstone

Patrick van Zwanenberg

Introduction

107

(2)

Orthodox assumptions

109

(1)

Why science is necessary but not sufficient

109

(1)

The scope for discretion

110

(1)

Risk assessments of environmental biodiversity: global or local?

111

(1)

WTO trade disputes over food safety

112

(4)

Summary and concluding remarks

116

(3)

Food Trade and Food Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Old Myths and New Challenges

119

(14)

Christopher Stevens

Introduction

119

(2)

The protection-preference nexus

121

(3)

What won't change?

124

(4)

What will change?

128

(2)

Conclusion

130

(3)

The World Food Economy in the Twenty-first Century: Challenges for International Co-operation

133

(12)

Hartwig de Haen

Kostas Stamoulis

Prakash Shetty

Prabhu Pingali

The changing world food economy and the fight against hunger

133

(3)

Emerging issues in the world food economy

136

(4)

Co-ordination, regulation, intervention: what role for International co-operation?

140

(4)

Concluding remarks

144

(1)

Responding to Change: WFP and the Global Food Aid System

145

(12)

Edward J. Clay

How institutions respond to the changes in the global food system

145

(1)

The context: how has the system changed?

146

(1)

WFP: from development to relief

147

(3)

How WFP became primarily a relief agency

150

(2)

The erosion of multilateralism

152

(2)

Adapting to change: successes, failures and unresolved issues

154

(3)

References

157

(20)

Index

177

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