...This article examines patterns of food consumption in early modern Iran from a historical perspective and in a global context. The discussion focuses on the period of the Safavid and the Qajar dynasties, or the early sixteenth to early twentieth centuries. The article first considers Iran’s...

...This chapter first discusses a number of food consumption and nutrition challenges in China. Although China’s urban–rural gap in food and nutrition is narrowing, dietary imbalance is an increasing problem throughout the country. There are challenges ahead related to awareness and mindset; food...

... 5 3,082 mg 1 1 This chapter considers the various perspectives from which diet can be viewed and discusses the calculation of nutrient intakes from data on food consumption. Diets of human populations are extremely complex. They can be viewed in several ways, including as intake...

.... In recent years, however, farmers, agribusiness, policy makers, and academics have increasingly turned their attention away from the farm and toward the food consumer and to issues related to food consumption. The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Food Consumption and Policy provides an overview...

... potential, had limited impact on the analysis of eating. This article reviews recent scholarship in the field of eating and food consumption, and uses the lens of the globalization thesis to explore how goods, people, and ideas have come to circulate in ways that affect eating habits. It argues...

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...This chapter discusses the Food Stamp Program (FSP) of the United States and food consumption. It investigates the effect of FSP on food expenditures in families headed by low-educated, single mothers during 1994 to 2004. It studied the association between the food stamp caseload and pattern...

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... participation in the gatherings centered on ritual food consumption that brought families together. The chapter asks why immigrants insisted on such family food rituals in exchange for relinquishing control of their children's public life, and why younger Italian Americans agreed. It shows that the Italian...

...This chapter explores the interrelationships among food, place, and race in Italian Harlem and shows that the Italian immigrant community was also a race-inflected geography of food consumption. During the 1930s, Italian Americans were hit hard by the Depression. Italians were disproportionately...

...This chapter explores youth food consumption in commercial food settings as youth leave school at the end of the day. It focuses in particular on McDonald's and Chipotle as popular after-school destinations. It considers two core elements of youth food consumption in the commercial realm—play...

... they eat. It provides an account of the role that food plays in the lives of today's youth, teasing out the many contradictions of food as a cultural object. The book examines the complex relationship between youth identity and food consumption, offering answers to those straightforward questions...

... of ‘conspicuous consumption’ and individual choice. It also argues that there is more to the economics of consumption than the mainstream economists' paradigm of utility maximisation, reviews how consumption fits into ‘evolutionary’ models of economic development, examines the routine nature of food consumption...

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... European Union Farm to Fork Strategy food consumption behavior food system transition Green Deal food policy sustainable agriculture political economy The European Union (EU)’s food system is under pressure for reform. Agriculture production alone is responsible for 10 percent of the EU’s...

... the length of an American football pitch and can process over half a million tonnes of fish a year. But it is not just on land that the biosphere is threatened. Our influence has been rising on the high seas. The problems of our food consumption are complicated further when waste is factored in. Something...

... consumption patterns, and the extent of gender disparities with respect to health, education, and food consumption within households in India. By highlighting policies needed to address gender gaps in intrahousehold consumption patterns, the paper hopes to make visible both the dynamics and forces that shape...

... to food consumption choices. It also deals with constructed preferences—the idea that individuals might not have stable, well-defined preferences but instead that their preferences are constructed as needed and readily influenced by characteristics of the decision environment. Furthermore, the insights...

...Table 14.1 FAO FBS estimates of per capita food consumption by source and region, 1961 and 2007 (%) World South Asia Africa Southeast Asia China 1961 2007 1961 2007 1961 2007 1961 2007 1961 2007 Cereals 49 46 64 60 50...

...This article outlines the major environmental issues related to food consumption, which encompass not only the impacts caused by the production of food, but also those generated by food transport, processing, packaging, consumption, and disposal. Much of the literature cited here uses product...