Does a better diet reduce dependence on imports? The case of Tunisia

Autor: Marie-Josèphe Amiot, Sophie Drogue, Nicole Darmon, Marlène Perignon
Přispěvatelé: Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs (UMR MOISA), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier (CIHEAM-IAMM), Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)-Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)-Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
2. Zero hunger
Consumption (economics)
Economics and Econometrics
food trade
05 social sciences
Armington function
JEL: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics/Q.Q1 - Agriculture/Q.Q1.Q17 - Agriculture in International Trade
[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
Animal origin
tunisia
Agricultural economics
JEL: I - Health
Education
and Welfare/I.I1 - Health/I.I1.I18 - Government Policy • Regulation • Public Health
Nutrient
nutrition
JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C6 - Mathematical Methods • Programming Models • Mathematical and Simulation Modeling/C.C6.C61 - Optimization Techniques • Programming Models • Dynamic Analysis
0502 economics and business
050202 agricultural economics & policy
Business
050207 economics
Sugar
Agronomy and Crop Science
[SDV.AEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutrition
mathematical programming
Zdroj: Agricultural Economics
Agricultural Economics, Wiley, 2020, 51, pp.567-575. ⟨10.1111/agec.12572⟩
Agricultural Economics, Wiley, 2020, 51 (4), pp.567-575. ⟨10.1111/agec.12572⟩
ISSN: 0169-5150
1574-0862
Popis: International audience; In the last 40 years Tunisia has experienced – as many other developing and emerging countries – a dietary transition, which led to an increase in the consumption of sugar, fats and animal products. This transition was accompanied by an increase in non‐communicable diseases and particularly in cardio‐vascular diseases. Using mathematical programming we optimized the Tunisian diet using the French dietary recommendations as constraints. Then, we used the Global Trade Analysis Project's constant elasticities of substitution in order to simulate the impact of fulfilling the nutrient recommendations on international trade and domestic supply. Using this approach, we showed that the Tunisian diet is too rich in carbohydrates and sugar but lacks fibers, some minerals and vitamins. The adherence to all the recommendations would induce an imperative shift to less sugar and cereal‐based products reducing the import dependence on these products, but induce a dramatic increase in the domestic supply of products from animal origin, fruits, vegetables and legumes.
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