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The Impact of Increasing Food Supply on Human Nutrition: Implications for Commodity Priorities in Agricultural Research and Policy
Author(s) -
PinstrupAndersen Per,
Londoño Norha Ruiz,
Hoover Edward
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.1093/ajae/58.2.133
Subject(s) - commodity , agriculture , calorie , consumption (sociology) , agricultural economics , economics , food supply , food policy , population , distribution (mathematics) , human nutrition , food security , nutrient , natural resource economics , environmental health , food science , medicine , geography , biology , market economy , mathematical analysis , social science , mathematics , archaeology , endocrinology , sociology , ecology
A procedure is developed to estimate the nutritional implications of alternative commodity priorities in agricultural research and policy. The model estimates the distribution of supply increases among consumer groups, the related adjustments in total food consumption, and implications for calorie and protein nutrition. Findings from an empirical application of the model to the population of Cali, Colombia, suggest that relative increase in total nutrient supply is a poor indicator of relative nutritional impact because both nutritional waste and consumer adjustment in total food consumption are a function of the commodity from which the additional nutrients are obtained.