Methodological Approaches To Analysis Of Food Supply And Distribution Systems

FAO
Food Supply and Distribution to Cities
in French-speaking Africa

FOOD INTO CITIES COLLECTION


METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO ANALYSIS
OF FOOD SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS


MAURIZIO ARAGRANDE

Programme GPC/RAF/309/FRA


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Table of Contents

Executive summary
Acronyms and abbreviations
Boxes
Introduction

1 The traditional economic approach

1.1 Market efficiency
1.2 A modified neoclassical model
1.3 Basic points of the traditional economic approach
1.4 Summary

2 The pipeline approach

2.1 Limitations of the pipeline
2.2 Actors and strategies
2.3 The geographical space
2.4 Social relationships
2.5 Summary

3 The evolutionary approach

3.1 Theoretical perspective on innovation: the historical background
3.2 Innovation and the process of innovation
3.3 Innovation and urban FSDSs
3.4 Summary

4 The historical approach

4.1 Recomposing the social field
4.2 Basic features of the historical approach
4.3 Summary

5 The nutritional approach

5.1 Current state of theories and methodologies
5.2 Analysis of nutritional status
5.3 Study of urban food consumption
5.4 Quality control of foodstuffs
5.5 Relationship between this discipline and others
5.6 Summary

6 The geographical approach

6.1 Urban growth: city and metropolis
6.2 Urban malaise
6.3 The city and food
6.4 Summary

7 The legal approach

7.1 The role and limitations of law in analysis of FSDSs
7.2 Sectoral laws affecting FSDSs
7.3 FSDS laws in operation
7.4 Summary

8 Conclusions

8.1 The economic efficiency of markets
8.2 Beyond economic efficiency
8.3 Time and space
8.4 A global approach

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