The Paradox of Fair Trade : The Influence of Neoliberal Trade Agreements on Food Security and Health

  • De Souza, Rebecca
  • Basu, Ambar
  • Kim, Induk
  • Basnyat, Iccha
  • Dutta, Mohan J.
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Publication date
January 2008
Publisher
Scholar Commons

Abstract

One of the essential components of health is food. Food calls our urgent attention because it constitutes “the overriding human need, the very means of life, recognized in the charter of United Nations as a human right” (Madeley, 2000, p. 25). Food is a fundamental necessity in our lives. The Food Research Action Center (2005) notes a wide range of negative health outcomes due to hunger and malnutrition: hungry persons suffer from two to four times as many individual health problems, such as unwanted weight loss, fatigue, headaches, inability to concentrate and frequent colds; the mortality rate is closely related to inadequate quantity or quality of the diet; iron-deficiency anemia in children can lead to negative health effects such as de...

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