Abstract
Globally, we are producing more food than the population needs. Subsidising overproduction in Europe is affecting the health of people in both Africa and Europe
Keywords
OverweightObesityAgricultureSubsidyAgricultural productivityEnvironmental healthPopulationProductivityBusinessDevelopment economicsMedicineEconomic growthEconomicsGeographyMarket economy
MeSH Terms
AgricultureEnergy IntakeEuropean UnionFinancial ManagementFood SupplyGlobal HealthHumansHungerObesity
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- Year
- 2005
- Type
- review
- Volume
- 331
- Issue
- 7528
- Pages
- 1333-1336
- Citations
- 94
- Access
- Closed
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Liselotte Schäfer Elinder
(2005).
Obesity, hunger, and agriculture: the damaging role of subsidies.
BMJ
, 331
(7528)
, 1333-1336.
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.331.7528.1333
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1136/bmj.331.7528.1333
- PMID
- 16322026
- PMCID
- PMC1298864