Understanding transition in animal based foodconsumption: a case study in the cityof Vadodara in Gujarat (India)

Estelle Fourat (), Shagufa Kapadia, Urvi Shah, Vaishali Zararia and Nicolas Bricas
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Estelle Fourat: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Avenue Jeanne, 44, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
Shagufa Kapadia: Department of Human Development and Family Studies, and Women’s Studies Research Center,Faculty of Family and Community Sciences, The M.S. University of Baroda, Gujarat, India
Urvi Shah: Population Research Centre, Faculty of Science, The M.S. University of Baroda, Gujarat, India
Vaishali Zararia: Women’s Studies Research Center, Faculty of Family and Community Sciences, The M.S.University of Baroda, Gujarat, India
Nicolas Bricas: CIRAD, UMR MOISA, F-34398 Montpellier, France et MOISA, Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, 2018, vol. 99, issue 2, 189–205

Abstract: India is experiencing a modernisation process characterised by rapid urbanisa-tion and the emergence of a new middle class. This process is expected to lead to a changein lifestyles and dietary patterns, and notably higher consumption of animal based foods.The present article focuses on this changing dietary trend in the city of Vadodara in Gujarat(India). A stratified sample of 432 women andmen was selected, representing Brahmin,non-Brahmin and Jain communities from high, medium and low socioeconomic strata.The results revealed that, in the transition process, the supposed protein shift from plant- toanimal based foods takes specific forms in this cultural context because of more complexdrivers that shape food consumption than the socioeconomic position in the society. Ithighlights that beyond the supra-determination of castes and socioeconomic classes, majordrivers of this consumption are the norms and values attached to foods and theirinterrelations with eating practices according to spatiotemporal and social dimensions.This Indian case reveals that dietary change is not unidirectional towards the Westernmodel but each culture has aunique form of transition.

Keywords: Nutrition; transition.Animal; based; foods.Diet; categories.Vegetarian/Nonvegetarian.India.Eating; practices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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