Balancing international trade and local production for food and nutrition security: animal-sourced foods’ contribution to human welfare
Wynn Mitscherlich, C.C., Voss, V., Bhatti, M.A., Eik, L.O., Behrendt, K. and Wynn, P.C. (2021) Balancing international trade and local production for food and nutrition security: animal-sourced foods’ contribution to human welfare. Animal Frontiers, 11 (5). pp. 40-51.
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Abstract
Animal-sourced foods make a valuable contribution to the diets of consumers from countries across the economic development spectrum. They provide essential micronutrients including iron, vitamin A, vitamin B12, iodine, and zinc, to balance diets which, apart from vitamin B12, are more bioavailable than in plant-sourced foods. This is important for consumers with high needs including young children, pregnant and lactating women, and malnourished people. Although international trade has great potential to distribute animal products to satisfy global food demand, current trade flows are not achieving this goal in many low and lower middle-income countries. Multilateral efforts, supported by high-income countries, are needed to orientate international trade systems to provide better food and nutrition security. The continuity of trade in filling nutrient deficiencies is often disrupted in times of economic depression, conflict, or natural disaster. Suppliers can retain food resources for their own consumers, while in low-income countries most consumers can ill-afford expensive imports. Stability in most countries’ supply of animal-sourced foods must rely on the resourcefulness of domestic family-based farmers, who produce up to 80% of the world’s food. While encouraging the international trade of animal-sourced foods, governments need to ensure that they develop policies that support these local production units to remain profitable to meet domestic consumption needs. These policies must be developed in the context of the UN’s doctrine of a Right to Food designed to ensure individual countries provide good governance and resources to minimize hunger and poverty.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | animal, climate change, food security, global, nutrition security, trade |
| Divisions: | Food, Land and Agribusiness Management |
| Depositing User: | Mrs Rachael Giles |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Nov 2021 11:00 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Nov 2021 11:00 |
| URI: | https://hau.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17764 |
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