Undernutrition remains a major source of human suffering and an obstacle to national economic and human development in … many African countries. This report investigates undernutrition's persistence, drawing on case studies of the public … actors, understanding of undernutrition, and the timing of public responses, the author explains why none of these four …

Estimating future demand for food is a critical aspect of global food security analyses. The process linking dietary … changes to wealth is known as the nutrition transition and presents well-identified features that help to predict consumption … changes in poor countries. This study proposes to represent the nutrition transition with a nonhomothetic, flexible …

nutrition along the entire food value chain. It then identifies adaptation and mitigation interventions for each step of the … food value chain to move toward a more climate-smart, nutrition-sensitive food system. The study focuses on poor rural …The paper uses a food systems approach to analyze the bidirectional relationships between climate change and food and …

calculate proxy estimates of food consumption, nutrient intakes, and nutrition status, often at the individual level. Rarely … strengthening HCES measurement of food consumption in support of more evidence-based nutrition policy making … data on household food consumption and availability in more than 120 countries. HCES are increasingly being used to …

foods at home has decreased, while food away consumed away from home has risen substantially. We then show that estimates of … food expenditure elasticities of different food types are highly sensitive to different estimation approaches, raising … concerns regarding the existing evidence base on food consumption patterns reliant on estimation of food expenditure …

This paper assesses the Subramanian and Deaton (S–D) approach for imputing the caloric intake of households from food …

F&V intake, household food security, and anemia levels for individual women caregivers of childbearing age. Using a … tool to measure household food insecurity is robust and applicable in other contexts. We also show, using robust … nonproducer households. Furthermore, F&V-producer households are potentially more food secure, and women caregivers in producer …

countries. To reduce malnutrition, innovations in food systems are needed to both provide sufficient options for consumers to … healthier diets. A potential solution to this challenge is food systems innovations designed to lead to healthier diets. In this … paper, we lay out a multidisciplinary framework for both identifying and analyzing innovations in food systems that can lead …

Taking a food systems approach is a promising strategy for improving diets. Implementing such an approach would require … the use of a comprehensive set of metrics to characterize food systems, set meaningful goals, track food systems … performance, and evaluate the impacts of food systems interventions. Food systems metrics are also useful to structure debates and …

In this paper we look at Sri Lanka's food and nutrition policies from a historical perspective to identify the … intervention options for addressing the country's current food security and nutrition challenges …