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Towards an understanding of a changing food system in Mauritius: A case study of rural and urban Mauritius
Includes bibliographical references.
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| author | Appavoo Moodelly, Sandra |
| author2 | Battersby-Lennard, Jane |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12817 Towards an understanding of a changing food system in Mauritius: A case study of rural and urban Mauritius Appavoo Moodelly, Sandra Battersby-Lennard, Jane Environmental and Geographical Science Includes bibliographical references. Nutrition transition is a phenomenon occurring throughout most of the developing world whereby traditional diets are increasingly being replaced by Western diets. In the literature, globalization is described as the main factor promoting such a transition. In adopting Western lifestyles, people abandon their traditional foods and adopt a Western diet which largely consists of energy-dense, nutritionally poor and highly processed foods. The nutrition transition, the underlying causes and its subsequent impacts on public health are well documented in the literature. However, there is a gap in the literature explaining the different ways in which the nutrition transition unfolds in the lives of people. Therefore this research project tries to document the lived experience of a changing food system in the Mauritian context. Mauritius has been selected as the study site because it is a microcosm of the casual factors driving the nutrition transition and also because the food system is rapidly changing. In 2008, the status of the country changed from being a net food exporter to a net food importer. A rural and urban site namely, Bambous Virieux and Tranquebar, Port-Louis have been selected to understand the different food geographies and to investigate the ways people in different locations experience a changing food system. By means of in-depth interviews, narratives and observation, the difference aspects of a changing food system is investigated. This study approaches the phenomenon of nutrition transition from the research participants’ lens. 2015-05-18T14:22:06Z 2015-05-18T14:22:06Z 2014 Master Thesis Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12817 eng application/pdf Department of Environmental and Geographical Science Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Environmental and Geographical Science Appavoo Moodelly, Sandra Towards an understanding of a changing food system in Mauritius: A case study of rural and urban Mauritius |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Towards an understanding of a changing food system in Mauritius: A case study of rural and urban Mauritius |
| title_full | Towards an understanding of a changing food system in Mauritius: A case study of rural and urban Mauritius |
| title_fullStr | Towards an understanding of a changing food system in Mauritius: A case study of rural and urban Mauritius |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards an understanding of a changing food system in Mauritius: A case study of rural and urban Mauritius |
| title_short | Towards an understanding of a changing food system in Mauritius: A case study of rural and urban Mauritius |
| title_sort | towards an understanding of a changing food system in mauritius a case study of rural and urban mauritius |
| topic | Environmental and Geographical Science |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12817 |
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