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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 … Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. It captures the main features of the nutrition transition: rise in demand for …
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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 …
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Malnutrition in all its forms is a major challenge everywhere in the world, and particularly in low and middle income countries. To reduce malnutrition, innovations in food systems are needed to both provide sufficient options for consumers to obtain diets with adequate nutritional value, and to...
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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...
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countries in the 2015 Global Hunger Index remain “serious” or “alarming.” Since achieving and maintaining food and nutrition …
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nutritious food. Multi-sectoral approaches to promote nutrition sensitivity and achieve diet-based solutions have also had only … limited impact. This paper reports on an analysis of the nutrition sensitivity of food systems in Afghanistan using multi …-sector consultations and gap analyses to examine two key food and nutrition policies, the National Comprehensive Agriculture Development …
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burden of malnutrition and the achievement of zero hunger. To accelerate nutrition-sensitive food environments that deliver …
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Food security and nutrition policy interventions generally rely on selective measures. Yet recent literature emphasizes … the importance of identifying different pathways from agriculture to nutrition for better nutritional outcomes. Using a … food security indicators along the agriculture-nutrition pathways. Through a broadened and comprehensive approach under one …
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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 … farmers, a population especially vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change on nutrition, although we recognize that …
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response to the problem in Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda. Analyzing each nation's policymaking structures, political … can raise public awareness of the problem, highlight policymakers' duty to ensure the nutrition of their citizens, and … link proper nutrition to general national development. This report should serve as a resource for advocates, researchers …
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