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Title: | Food Security and Hedonic Behaviour: A Case Study of São Tomé e Principe |
Author: | Carvalho, Bernardo R.P. de |
Year: | 1998 |
Periodical: | Food Policy |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 3-4 |
Period: | November |
Pages: | 263-275 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | São Tomé and Principe |
Subjects: | food policy food Economics and Trade Development and Technology |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0306-9192(98)00034-7 |
Abstract: | It is essential to study the effects structural adjustment programmes adopted in African countries have on food security, including production and consumption systems and their sustainability. This paper presents a country case study (São Tomé e Príncipe) using a specific method (the Lancaster model) to study consumption behaviour and consumption efficiency. Local food products ('matabala', taro, as an example) and competing imported foods are studied in terms of consumption choice and consumer efficiency in respect to changes in economic policy (from a centrally planned economy to a market-oriented economy). The results show that free market functioning supports local products consumption as an efficient solution in São Tomé e Príncipe. Bibliogr., sum. |