Food and Development

 National perspectives

Learning outcomes

At the end of this chapter, the reader should be able to:

•  Appreciate that national contrasts in malnutrition remain extreme

•  Understand the role of historical processes to contemporary patterns of malnutrition in several national contexts

•  Understand the potential role of national governments in reducing malnutrition (both overnutrition and undernutrition)

•  Appreciate the roles of different models of development for malnutrition

•  Understand the factors that help explain the nutritional transition

Key concepts

Colonial legacies; property relations; plantation economics; core and periphery; liberalization; ...