BIOSOCIAL RISKS OF FOOD: INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS
https://doi.org/10.24833/2071-8160-2017-1-52-67-82
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Dietary wellness,
biosocial risks,
obesity,
anorexia,
bulimia,
hunger,
waste,
food sovereignty,
land grabbing
About the Author
P. Corvo
The University of Gastronomic Sciences
Italy
Italy
Director of the sociological laboratory,
Pollenzo (Italy). 12042 Piazza Vittorio Emanuele 9, Pollenzo –Bra (Cn)
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Corvo P. BIOSOCIAL RISKS OF FOOD: INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS. MGIMO Review of International Relations. 2017;(1(52)):67-82. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24833/2071-8160-2017-1-52-67-82
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