High Cost Cheap Food
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7079531 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Caraher (0000-0002-0615-839X, City, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 1-3 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeos1494 |
| OpenAlex | W4251401463 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Cheap food is an illusion. The provision of cheap food results in hidden or indirect high costs. This is in three areas: first, increases in diet‐related diseases; second, in damage to the environment through intensive production and long food supply chains; finally, the impacts on livelihoods. The drivers of these changes are supermarkets and fast food conglomerates which spearhead the nutrition and ecological transitions. Globalization of the food system results in more food that is high in fat, salt, and sugar, leading to increases in obesity and diet‐related noncommunicable diseases. Impacts on the environment and livelihoods come about through the mechanism of contracts where growers and manufacturers are squeezed to deliverer more for less
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Biology · Business · Economics · Food industry · Food processing · Food security · Food supply · Food systems · Livelihood · Natural resource economics · Production (economics · Sugar · Supply chain · Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling · Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability · Organic Food and Agriculture · Biotechnology · Ecology · Food Science · Marketing
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |