This article shows how Chile experienced a profound nutrition transition within a short period of time. Before the early 1990s, the diet of most Chileans was poor in animal proteins and calcium. Today, Chileans enjoy a diet characterized by high consumption of meat and dairy products. The rapid rise in consumption of these products can be attributed to various factors: Chile belatedly joining the international agribusiness revolution; government support from the 1930s to the 1960s; increasing GDP per capita; macro-economic stability; changes in consumption habits; trade liberalization; and the fall in food prices, as both meat and milk had high income elasticity. These revolutions in both production and consumption have greatly improved the nutrition of the Chilean population and partly explain the improvement in Chile’s biological well-being.
Este é um artigo de acesso aberto, licenciado por Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 Internacional (CC BY 4.0), sendo permitidas reprodução, adaptação e distribuição desde que o autor e a fonte originais sejam creditados. Resumen: En este artículo se describe y analiza la trayectoria de la familia empresaria Cousiño y su participación en el desarrollo de la industria del carbón en Chile a lo largo de cien años, donde a través de la creación de una empresa familiar fue pionera en la explotación del carbón en la zona de Arauco, levantando un complejo minero industrial moderno, que contaba con una fundición de cobre, fábrica de ladrillos refractarios, puerto y una flota de vapores para el transporte del mineral y el cobre, poniendo especial énfasis en la evolución de la empresa y la administración por parte de la familia empresaria Cousiño en sus procesos de sucesión empresarial y la gestión del negocio minero a lo largo de tres generaciones.
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