Child malnutrition and low-quality diets remain widespread public health problems in sub-Saharan Africa. Providing … contexts. Here, we analyze the role of markets and food environments for child diets and nutrition in Malawi along an urban …-rural continuum. We develop a new methodology to characterize food environments in terms of the variety of fresh and processed foods …

in Sub-Saharan Africa. Food insecurity remains a major issue among African smallholders. Mobile phones could potentially … facilitate access to food markets and thus improve food security and nutrition, but research on such types of effects remains … access to food markets. …

Undernutrition and low dietary quality remain widespread problems especially among smallholder farmers in sub …-Saharan Africa. Hence, the question as to how smallholder systems can be made more nutrition-sensitive is of particular relevance for …

In many countries of the Global South, agri-food supply chains are transforming rapidly. One important feature of this …

undernutrition: (i) the FAO indicator of undernourishment, (ii) household food consumption surveys, and (iii) childhood …In this article, we critically review the three most common approaches of assessing chronic food insecurity and … methodological and empirical problems associated with all three approaches. Hence, the true extent of food insecurity and …

Food environments in Africa are changing rapidly, with modern retailers - such as supermarkets, hypermarkets, and fast-food … restaurants - gaining in importance. Changing food environments can influence consumer food choices and dietary patterns. Recent … their food from various sources. We add to this research direction by examining more explicitly the relationships between …