Shaping food environments to support sustainable healthy diets in low and middle-income countries
The global ambitions to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture demand a complex transition of the current food environments for enabling sustainable healthy diets. The food environments in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) have been experi...
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| author | Shalander Kumar Abhishek Das Kavitha Kasala Bradley George Ridoutt Bradley George Ridoutt |
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| description | The global ambitions to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture demand a complex transition of the current food environments for enabling sustainable healthy diets. The food environments in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) have been experiencing rapid and dynamic transitions across the globe, necessitating a system-level thinking and systemic approach to understand opportunities for improvement. There is a need for valid, reliable measures of food and nutrition environments for reorienting thinking and data collection toward determinants of food demand, especially the food environment components, which are critical to understand the transforming food systems. Food environment transformations are urgently required to provide consumers with more affordable and nutritious diets capable of meeting social and environmental challenges. In the present perspective, we aim to provide insights on prioritizing research on understanding and designing evidence based inclusive food environments which is crucial for promoting long-term food system innovations that are economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable and, above all, contribute to sustainable healthy diets. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3f424a0da61c4c40aa3f857921385eda2023-06-13T04:12:45ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems2571-581X2023-06-01710.3389/fsufs.2023.11207571120757Shaping food environments to support sustainable healthy diets in low and middle-income countriesShalander Kumar0Abhishek Das1Kavitha Kasala2Bradley George Ridoutt3Bradley George Ridoutt4International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, IndiaInternational Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, IndiaInternational Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, IndiaCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Canberra, ACT, AustraliaDepartment of Agricultural Economics, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South AfricaThe global ambitions to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture demand a complex transition of the current food environments for enabling sustainable healthy diets. The food environments in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) have been experiencing rapid and dynamic transitions across the globe, necessitating a system-level thinking and systemic approach to understand opportunities for improvement. There is a need for valid, reliable measures of food and nutrition environments for reorienting thinking and data collection toward determinants of food demand, especially the food environment components, which are critical to understand the transforming food systems. Food environment transformations are urgently required to provide consumers with more affordable and nutritious diets capable of meeting social and environmental challenges. In the present perspective, we aim to provide insights on prioritizing research on understanding and designing evidence based inclusive food environments which is crucial for promoting long-term food system innovations that are economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable and, above all, contribute to sustainable healthy diets.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1120757/fullfood environmentframeworksustainable healthy dietlow and middle-income countries (LMICs)food system |
| spellingShingle | Shalander Kumar Abhishek Das Kavitha Kasala Bradley George Ridoutt Bradley George Ridoutt Shaping food environments to support sustainable healthy diets in low and middle-income countries Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems food environment framework sustainable healthy diet low and middle-income countries (LMICs) food system |
| title | Shaping food environments to support sustainable healthy diets in low and middle-income countries |
| title_full | Shaping food environments to support sustainable healthy diets in low and middle-income countries |
| title_fullStr | Shaping food environments to support sustainable healthy diets in low and middle-income countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Shaping food environments to support sustainable healthy diets in low and middle-income countries |
| title_short | Shaping food environments to support sustainable healthy diets in low and middle-income countries |
| title_sort | shaping food environments to support sustainable healthy diets in low and middle income countries |
| topic | food environment framework sustainable healthy diet low and middle-income countries (LMICs) food system |
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