The right to an adequate diet: the agriculture-food-health nexus 2012, para. 32
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- The globalization of food supply chains affects nutrition in two ways. First, the general pattern has been for developing countries to export high-quality foods, tropical fruits and vegetables in particular, to rich countries, while importing refined grains. This means that while increased trade may have lowered the price of macronutrients in low-income countries (although with a greater vulnerability to price shocks), the reverse has been true for micronutrient-rich products, leading poor families in developing countries to shift to monotonous, micronutrient-poor diets, relying mainly on starchy staples, as more diverse diets may become unaffordable or less affordable than diets comprised of staples. Nutrition may thus be affected by this "price effect," resulting from the shift in the relative prices of food commodities.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Food, Report to the HRC (2012), A/HRC/19/59, para. 32.
- Paragraph number
- 32
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