Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta (May 2017)

BIOSOCIAL RISKS OF FOOD: INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS

  • P. Corvo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.24833/2071-8160-2017-1-52-67-82
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 1(52)
pp. 67 – 82

Abstract

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Food consumption is influenced by a series of issues that affect both individuals, and people and cultures of the different parts of the world. It studies biosocial risks that have dramatic implications: obesity, anorexia and bulimia; malnutrition and hunger, involving more than 800 million people; the waste food, a real paradox of the global world; the land grabbing. These are very different problems because of causes and dynamics, but all of them require a profound change to be affected: a greater awareness of eating behaviour, an educational action on food topics, an intervention of regulatory institutions, local and international, which guarantees a fair market for products and food sovereignty.

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