Towards an understanding of a changing food system in Mauritius: A case study of rural and urban Mauritius

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dc.contributor.advisorBattersby-Lennard, Janeen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorAppavoo Moodelly, Sandraen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-18T14:22:06Z
dc.date.available2015-05-18T14:22:06Z
dc.date.issued2014en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractNutrition 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.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationAppavoo Moodelly, S. (2014). <i>Towards an understanding of a changing food system in Mauritius: A case study of rural and urban Mauritius</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Environmental and Geographical Science. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12817en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationAppavoo Moodelly, Sandra. <i>"Towards an understanding of a changing food system in Mauritius: A case study of rural and urban Mauritius."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12817en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationAppavoo Moodelly, S. 2014. Towards an understanding of a changing food system in Mauritius: A case study of rural and urban Mauritius. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Appavoo Moodelly, Sandra AB - 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. DA - 2014 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 T1 - Towards an understanding of a changing food system in Mauritius: A case study of rural and urban Mauritius TI - Towards an understanding of a changing food system in Mauritius: A case study of rural and urban Mauritius UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12817 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/12817
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationAppavoo Moodelly S. Towards an understanding of a changing food system in Mauritius: A case study of rural and urban Mauritius. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, 2014 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12817en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Environmental and Geographical Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherEnvironmental and Geographical Scienceen_ZA
dc.titleTowards an understanding of a changing food system in Mauritius: A case study of rural and urban Mauritiusen_ZA
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