Argentina in the Latin American context: food consumption, health and nutritional policies

L’Argentine dans le contexte latino-américain: consommations alimentaires, santé et politiques nutritionnelles

Clementina Sebillotte ()
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Clementina Sebillotte: ALISS - Alimentation et sciences sociales - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

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Abstract: Overweight and obesity, two of the planetary nutritional disorders, can also affect populations from developing countries. In Argentina, similarly to the majority of countries of Latin-America and the Caribbean, excess weight problems affect more than a half of adult population2 (FAO, OPS, OMS. 2017. 2016 América Latina y el Caribe. Panorama de la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional, Sistemas alimentarios sostenible para poner fin al hambre y a la malnutrición. Santiago de Chile (Chile): Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura y la Organización Panamericana de la Salud. Available from http://www.fao.org/3/a-i6747s.pdf), and more seriously, coexist together with nutritional deficiencies. This paper explores the evolution of both dietary intake and public action in Argentina, in the light of global change and local economic and social instability. This analysis is made in the context of Latin-America and gives special attention to lipids. The first part is dedicated to the evolution of nutritional situation of Argentinian population and their food intake, including lipids. The second part presents the evolutions of political actions related to food and nutrition developed in Argentina; it provides special focus on pioneering and successful public action to diminish the quantity of industrially produced trans fatty acids in food. The third part addresses a general non-exhaustive panorama of Latin-American nutritional situation, presents food consumption models evolution and discusses food and nutrition policies implemented in the region, including the combat against trans fatty acids.

Keywords: food and nutrition policy; Argentina; Latin-America; obesity; lipids; trans fatty acids; overweight; dietary intake; Argentine; surpoids; nutritional public action; politique alimentaire et nutritionnelle; Amérique latine; obésité; lipides; acides gras trans; action publique nutritionnelle; consommation alimentaire (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in OCL Oilseeds and fats crops and lipids, 2018, 25 (1 / Janvier- Février 2018), pp.1-20. ⟨10.1051/ocl/2018002⟩

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DOI: 10.1051/ocl/2018002

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