Protocol to monitor trade agreement food-related aspects
The Fiji case study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22945705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amerita Ravuvu (0000-0001-8135-0560, Australian National University), Sharon Friel (0000-0002-8345-5435, Australian National University, corresponding author), Anne Marie Thow (0000-0002-6460-5864, The University of Sydney), Wendy Snowdon (Western Pacific Regional Office of the World Health Organisation, Fiji), Jillian Wate (Fiji National University) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 887-900 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Promotion International (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-4824 • E-ISSN: 1460-2245 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/heapro/dax020 |
| PMID | 28453626 |
| OpenAlex | W2609432058 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 21 |
Despite the growing rates of obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases, globally, public health attention has only relatively recently turned to the links between trade agreements and the nutritional risks associated with it. Specific trade agreements appear to have played an influential role in the volume and types of foods entering different countries, yet there is currently no systematic and objective monitoring of trade agreements for their impacts on food environments. Recently, INFORMAS was set up to monitor and benchmark food environments, government policies and private sector actions within countries and globally. One of its projects/modules focuses on trade policy and in particular the food-related aspects of trade agreements. This paper describes the INFORMAS trade protocol, an approach to collecting food-related information about four domains of trade: trade in goods; trade in services and foreign direct investment; domestic supports, and policy space. Specifically, the protocol is tested in Fiji. The development and testing of this protocol in Fiji represents the first effort to set out a framework and process for objectively monitoring trade agreements and their impacts on national food supply and the wider food environment. It has shown that entry into WTO trade agreements contributed to the nutrition transition in Fiji through the increased availability of imported foods with varying nutritional quality. We observed an increase in imports of both healthy and less healthy foods. The application of the monitoring protocol also highlights challenges for data collection associated with each trade domain that should be considered for future data collection and analysis in other low and middle income countries.
Business · Commercial policy · Economics · Government (linguistics) · International economics · International trade · Protocol (science) · Trade barrier · Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Medicine · Nutritional Studies and Diet
Informas ( I nternational N etwork for F ood and O besity/non‐communicable diseases R esearch, M onitoring and A ction S upport)
Increasing homogeneity in global food supplies and the implications for food security
Processed foods and the nutrition transition
The global obesity pandemic
Trade liberalization and the diet transition
A new generation of trade policy
Processed foods available in the Pacific Islands
The implications of trade liberalization for diet and health
Uneven dietary development
Comparison of food industry policies and commitments on marketing to children and product (re)formulation in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji
The role of foreign direct investment in the nutrition transition
Diet, nutrition and the prevention of excess weight gain and obesity
Implications of the Central America-Dominican Republic-Free Trade Agreement for the nutrition transition in Central America
Trade and the Nutrition Transition
Modelling of potential food policy interventions in Fiji and Tonga and their impacts on noncommunicable disease mortality
Processed food trade and developing countries
Globalization and Health
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2022 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |