Nutritional quality of food imports in Caribbean small islands. Evidence from the French West Indies

Viola Lamani (), Sophie Drogué, Alexandre Ducrot, Philippe Terrieux, Zoé Colombet and Caroline Méjean
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Viola Lamani: Univ Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Univ Montpellier, Univ Perpignan, CNRS, CIRAD, ART Dev UMR 5281
Sophie Drogué: Univ Montpellier, CIHEAM-IAMM, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, IRD, MoISA
Alexandre Ducrot: Service de l’économie agricole DAAF de Guadeloupe
Philippe Terrieux: Service Alimentation DAAF de Martinique
Zoé Colombet: University of Liverpool
Caroline Méjean: Univ Montpellier, CIHEAM-IAMM, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, IRD, MoISA

Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, 2024, vol. 105, issue 2, No 4, 275-298

Abstract: Abstract This paper investigates the determinants of the nutritional quality of food imports in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe and Martinique), from 1995 to 2016. We use an original dataset reconciling data at the six-digit level of the Harmonized System with data from the French food composition table (Ciqual, 2017). We estimate the impact of several socioeconomic factors and food processing on per-capita imports of key markers of the nutrition transition: kilocalories, animal protein, saturated fat, and sugar. Results suggest that an increase in the per-capita GDP in the French West Indies increases per-capita imports in terms of kilocalories and saturated fat. Retail expansion is shown to contribute to the nutrition transition via increasing per-capita imports of our nutrition outcomes (except for sugar). We also show that processed and ultra-processed foods are associated with higher per-capita imports of our nutrition outcomes. Finally, the impact of the female labor force participation rate is found to be statistically insignificant.

Keywords: Food imports; Nutrition transition; Nutritional quality; Guadeloupe; Martinique; F14; Q17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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