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Title:Inappropriate products and techniques: breakfast food in Kenya
Author:Kaplinsky, RaphaelISNI
Year:1979
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy
Volume:6
Issue:14
Pages:90-96
Language:English
Geographic term:Kenya
Subjects:food
technology
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056247908703387
Abstract:The choice of production technology is closely linked to product choice, such-that the prior specification of product often determines the subsequent choice of technology. In addition, the combined effects of unequal patterns of income distribution, the demonstration effect on consumption patterns associated with the presence of expatriates and visits by national of underdeveloped-countries overseas, and the organised attempts of producers to influence taste patterns of consumers, have together led to demand structures which have facilitated the introduction of inappropriate products, and hence of inappropriate techniques. This general phenomenon is illustrated by a case study of breakfast cereals in Kenya. Imported and locally made breakfast cereals are compared with alternative foods, some of which have been consumed over very many years. In this particular case, the move from traditional, appropriate products to new, less appropriate ones significantly increases the nutrient cost to consumers. Bibliographic note, tab.
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