Food consumption versus income in the city of Cali, Colombia: The poor are not necessarily the worst off
The rapid epidemiological transition occurring in urban areas is a very high burden for emerging countries. While it is admitted that poor households are more vulnerable than richer to overweight & obesity, the link between overweight & obesity and food consumption is still controversial. Data from a sub sample of the national sample of the 2006 Colombian LSMS (Living Standards Measurement Study) survey was analyzed: it consists in 1300 households representative of the city of Cal. We compared food consumption according to the level of poverty of the households. Unsurprisingly the richer households consume more of almost all products than the poorer households. They consumed also much more of the “un-healthy” food products such as industrial processed food, or meat, and more alcoholic beverages. On the contrary, poor households ate as often fruit and vegetables as the richest. The analysis has to be fine-tuned but these first insights show that the common idea that “poor” eat a poor quality diet compared to the better off, might not be true. This work is an output of the project “Cali Come Mejor” lead by the CIAT (Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical) funded by the Ford Fondation.
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| Language: | eng |
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| Online Access: | http://agritrop.cirad.fr/599655/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/599655/1/jrss2016_dury.pdf |
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