Trade in foods: an analysis of the determinants of the structure of food imports by nutritional quality in the French West Indies

Viola Lamani (), Sophie Drogué, Zoé Colombet () and Caroline Méjean ()
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Viola Lamani: UMR MOISA - Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier
Zoé Colombet: UMR MOISA - Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier
Caroline Méjean: UMR MOISA - Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier

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Abstract: The objective of this paper is to estimate the determinants of the key components of the nutritional quality of food imports in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe and Martinique) spanning over a twenty-year time period (1995-2016). To this end, we use an original database reconciling data at the six-digit level of the Harmonized System with data from the French food composition table (Ciqual 2017 ). Through an econometric estimation, we assess the impact of several socioeconomic determinants (per-capita GDP, female labor force participation, retail expansion and urbanization) on the supply of key nutrition components that characterize the nutrition transition: animal protein, fat (and particularly saturated fat), sugar and fiber. Our results suggest a positive association between both per-capita GDP and female labor force participation rate and the supply of macronutrients and fiber. Retail expansion (i.e. number of supermarkets and hypermarkets) is found to have a positive and significant impact on the supply of fat and sugar, but also on the supply of fiber. Urbanization impacts negatively the supply of animal protein and fat.

Keywords: food imports; guadeloupe; nutritional components; martinique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-12-12
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Published in 13. Journées de recherches en sciences sociales (JRSS 2019), Société Française d'Economie Rurale (SFER). FRA.; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD). FRA.; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA). FRA., Dec 2019, Bordeaux, France. 14 p

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