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<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>D</span></font>ear friends<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Case studies and human interest
stories on “Food and </span></font></b><b><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-weight:bold'>Globalisation</span>”</b><br>
<br>
The Global Health Watch provides an alternative assessment of the gross
inequalities in health worldwide, "watches" the institutions of
global health and development governance, and makes recommendations for new
approaches to some of the most intractable health problems in the world today. <br>
<br>
We would like your assistance and input in writing and sourcing human interest
stories written in a simple narrative style. Where it is not possible to
integrate stories submitted within chapters, we will put them on the web site.
We would like both positive and negative stories, successes and failures, etc.<br>
<br>
The “<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Food and </span></i><i><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-style:italic'>Globalisation</span></i>” chapter
framework summary is below. <br>
<br>
More information on GHW can be found on <a href="http://www.ghwatch.org/"
title="http://www.ghwatch.org/">www.ghwatch.org</a><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'>. </span></font>Information on this and other case can be
found on <u><font color=blue><span style='color:blue'><a
href="http://www.phmovement.org/ghwatch/"
title="http://www.phmovement.org/ghwatch/">http://www.phmovement.org/ghwatch/</a></span></font></u>
and the GHW website <a href="http://www.ghwatch.org/call_case_studies.php"
title="http://www.ghwatch.org/call_case_studies.php">http://www.ghwatch.org/call_case_studies.php</a>.
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<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;border:none;padding:0cm'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Please submit case
studies to <a href="mailto:ghw%40hst.org.za" title="mailto:ghw@hst.org.za">ghw@hst.org.za</a>.
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<br>
Thanks!<br>
Bridget<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>FOOD AND GLOBALIZATION<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Food is
integral to our health. It is also part of our culture; it helps define who we
are as individuals, communities and societies. Yet in the process of global
market integration, it has become a commodity, a commodity like any other,
traded around the world like oil or steel, the importance of its production
reduced to a factor of economic profit or loss. But food is not like steel or
oil. And treating it like a commodity is affecting the health of people around
the world.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>This
chapter will examine how the processes driving the integration of global food
markets – specifically trade, foreign investment and the growth of
transnational food companies – affects our health. It focuses on the
growing phenomenon of diet-related chronic diseases and their associated risk
factors of overweight/obesity, hypertension and high cholesterol. It also looks
at under-nutrition and food safety.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>We are
calling for case studies and human interest stories to demonstrate this and are
particularly interested in:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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line-height:120%'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:120%'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB>Personal
experiences of how the quality, prices, availability and safety of foods consumed
are being affected by trade and the transnational food companies; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB>In your country,
does the availability of food imports undermine domestic production in a way
that threatens food security?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB>Experiences of
the effects of globalization on under nutrition. Does it play a role in the
persistence of under-nutrition or are there cases when it has helped alleviate
under-nutrition?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB>Have the diets of
local communities changed? Is this because of the low price of imported food
and the availability of nutrient poor food high in fats, sweeteners and
processed foods?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB>Experiences of food-borne
disease as a result of food contaminated with microbiological and chemical
hazards or unconventional agents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
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</span></font><span lang=EN-ZA><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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