Ethical Issues Related to Food Sector Evolution in Developing Countries: About Sustainability and Equity |
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Authors: | Anne-Lucie Raoult-Wack Nicolas Bricas |
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Institution: | (1) CIRAD, TA 179/04, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France, E-mail |
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Abstract: | After a century of major technicaladvance, essentially achieved by and for theindustrialized countries, the evolution of thefood sector in southern countries should nolonger be thought of in terms of a ``headlongpursuit.'' In the present context of demographicgrowth, urbanization, poverty and disparities,environmental degradation, and globalization oftrade, new priorities have emerged, and newethical questions have been raised, mainlyrelated to sustainability and equity. Thispaper analyses these ethical concerns in thefollowing terms: can the model of food sectordevelopment initiated by the industrializedcountries be applied to the entire world on asustainable and equitable basis, given theeffects of this development with regard to theenergy consumed, the changes in dietarybehavior and related nutritional problems, thenew demands in terms of food safety, thequestions of biodiversity, ownership ofknowledge, cultural identities, gender issues,and Man's relationship to food and Nature? |
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Keywords: | biodiversity cultural identity developing countries dietary behavior energy equity food safety gender issue knowledge property sustainability |
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