research reports
GLOBAL HEALTH
A Global Value Chain Approach to Food Safety and Quality Standards |
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February 4, 2009 Durham |
This paper builds an analytic model to explain the relationship between value chain structures, food safety standards and food safety levels. The paper shows how both developed and developing countries are affected by and respond to the transformation of the global agri-food industry as well as the system of changing food safety standards. This paper was prepared for the Global Health Diplomacy for Chronic Disease Protection Working Paper Series. Paper 
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Trade, Transnational Corporations and Food Consumption: A Global Value Chain Approach |
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February 23, 2009 Durham |
This paper applies the GVC framework to examine the linkages between trade, foreign direct investment and food consumption in several illustrative country cases (China, Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago), and highlights the role of TNCs as drivers of food consumption through two company cases (McDonald’s and PepsiCo). The paper was prepared for a WHO edited volume on Trade and Healthy Diets. Paper
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The Governance Structure of U.S.-Based Food and Agriculture Value Chains and their Relevance to Healthy Diets |
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June 17, 2008 Durham, NC |
This paper outlines the global value chains (GVCs) of the chicken and tomato industries, showing how these industries have changed over time, who is driving that change, and how different segments of the value chain affect healthy diets and impact low-income populations. The authors specifically address how the lead firms in the global value chains of the chicken and tomato industries are a part of the processed food revolution and how this potentially impacts low-income communities. Paper
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Food Production Systems, Trade, and Transnational Corporations: A Global Value Chains Approach to Consumption and Healthy Diets |
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April 19, 2008 Durham, NC |
This paper explores the connections between the spread of obesity, especially in developing countries, and the interrelated expansion of trade, foreign direct investment, and transnational corporations (TNCs). The authors outline how the main concepts and methods of global value chains analysis can be applied to identify the direct and indirect linkages between the global economic processes of trade, foreign and direct investment, and food consumption. Paper
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A Global Value Chains Approach to Food, Healthy Diets, and Childhood Obesity |
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November 5, 2007 Durham, NC |
A challenge associated with the nutrition transition in developing countries (i.e.,simultaneous presence of over-nutrition and under-nutrition, both being most prevalent in the poorest population segments) is the integration of their markets into the global economy. This integration determined rapid and strong changes in the production and trade of agricultural goods in the developing countries as well as growing foreign direct investments in food processing and retailing, and the expansion of food advertisements with obvious implications for dietary patterns and the risk of obesity. Paper
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