HIDDEN HUNGER: GENDER AND THE POLITICS OF SMARTER FOODS
Book ID/图书代码： 03360013B59681
English Summary/英文概要： For decades, NGOs targeting world hunger focused on ensuring that adequate quantities of food were being sent to those in need. In the 1990s, the international food policy community turned its focus to the "hidden hunger" of micronutrient deficiencies, a problem that resulted in two scientific solutions: fortification, the addition of nutrients to processed foods, and biofortification, the modification of crops to produce more nutritious yields. This hidden hunger was presented as a scientific problem to be solved by "experts" and scientifically engineered smart foods rather than through local knowledge, which was deemed unscientific and, hence, irrelevant.
In Hidden Hunger, Aya Hirata Kimura explores this recent emphasis on micronutrients and smart foods within the international development community and, in particular, how the voices of women were silenced despite their expertise in food purchasing and preparation. Kimura grounds her analysis in case studies of attempts to enrich and market three basic foods—rice, wheat flour, and baby food—in Indonesia. She shows the power of nutritionism and how its technical focus enhanced the power of corporations as a government partner while restricting public participation in the making of policy for public health and food. She also analyzes the role of advertising to promote fortified foodstuffs and traces the history of Golden Rice, a crop genetically engineered to alleviate vitamin A deficiencies. Situating the recent turn to smart food in Indonesia and elsewhere as part of a long history of technical attempts to solve the Third World food problem, Kimura deftly analyzes the intersection of scientific expertise, market forces, and gendered knowledge to illuminate how hidden hunger ultimately defined women as victims rather than as active agents.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 几十年来，针对世界饥饿的非政府组织确保将足够数量的食物运往需要的地方。在20世纪90年代，国际粮食政策将重点转向微营养素缺乏症的“隐性饥饿”，该问题产生了两个科学解决方案：设防，增加食品的营养物质；生物强化，改良作物，生产有更多营养的食物。隐性饥饿作为一个科学问题被提出，由“专家”和智能科学工程食品来解决 ，而不是通过被视为不科学的当地知识来解决。
在《隐性饥饿》中，平田绫木村探索了最近国际发展团体强调的智能食品和微量营养素，特别是，尽管女性有采购和做饭的专业知识，为什么她们的声音却保持了沉默。木村根据一些案例以及市场上的三种基本食品——大米，面粉和婴儿食品——印尼来分析她的研究。她展示了营养师的力量，以及当限制公众参与健康和食品卫生安全的公共政策时，作为政府的合作伙伴，它如何用自己的技术专注于增强公司的力量。此外，她还分析了广告对促进强化食品，追踪金大米的历史，减轻维生素A缺乏问题的基因工程作物的作用。关于最近印尼转向智能饰品，以及其他国家试图用技术解决第三大世界问题粮食问题的情况，木村灵巧地分析了科学知识，市场力量和性别知识的交集，最终定义女性为隐性饥饿的受害者，而不是活性剂。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：“在《隐性饥饿》中，平田绫木村追踪了全球营养话语的详细丰富的历史，整合各种尺度的概念（从全球到局部，雅加达的贫民窟）。她有效地指出了政府和行业如何持续愚笨地忽略了所谓的“目标群体”的意见和需求——妇女和孩子。”——卡罗尔•J•皮尔斯，国际林业研究，《复杂的森林：社区，不确定性和自适应协同管理》的作者
“在《隐性饥饿》中，平田绫木村汇集了来自农业食品研究，女权食品研究和科学技术研究的见解，挑战了贫穷国家营养不足问题的流行看法。该结果是以专家知识、新自由主义政策占主导地位的细心和有见地的批评，那些不民主的做法正在改变粮食系统但并没有解决那些饥饿者所经历的饥饿和营养不良。木村成功地展示了当只有一个专家干预，重新审视该问题时，“魅力营养素”是如何吸引社会饥饿的原因和政治后果，增加食品生产和销售的数量，促进工业化食品加工的兴起。在此过程中，她也展示了穷人，特别是妇女是如何同时被压制和商品化的。她也创造了一个综合法，这很可能成为未来的食品，农业和饥饿方面的工作的模型。”——劳伦斯•布施，美国密歇根州立大学特聘教授，社会研究标准中心
About the Author/作者介绍： 平田绫木村是夏威夷大学马诺阿分校妇女研究中心的助理教授。
Aya Hirata Kimura is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
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