Agriculture, Food Systems, and Nutrition: Meeting the Challenge
Malnutrition is a global challenge with huge social and economic costs; nearly every country faces a public health challenge, whether from undernutrition, overweight/obesity, and/or micronutrient deficiencies. Malnutrition is a multisectoral, multi‐level problem that results from the complex interpl...
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| description | Malnutrition is a global challenge with huge social and economic costs; nearly every country faces a public health challenge, whether from undernutrition, overweight/obesity, and/or micronutrient deficiencies. Malnutrition is a multisectoral, multi‐level problem that results from the complex interplay between household and individual decision‐making, agri‐food, health, and environmental systems that determine access to services and resources, and related policy processes. This paper reviews the theory and recent qualitative evidence (particularly from 2010 to 2016) in the public health and nutrition literature, on the role that agriculture plays in improving nutrition, how food systems are changing rapidly due to globalization, trade liberalization, and urbanization, and the implications this has for nutrition globally. The paper ends by summarizing recommendations that emerge from this research related to (i) knowledge, evidence, and communications, (ii) politics, governance, and policy, and (iii) capacity, leadership, and financing. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e1aa5f5d915c4f2db8d74784016fad5e2023-08-14T09:40:51ZengWileyGlobal Challenges2056-66462017-04-0113n/an/a10.1002/gch2.201600002Agriculture, Food Systems, and Nutrition: Meeting the ChallengeStuart Gillespie0Mara van den Bold1International Food Policy Research Institute 2033 K Street N.W. Washington DC 20006 USAInternational Food Policy Research Institute 2033 K Street N.W. Washington DC 20006 USAMalnutrition is a global challenge with huge social and economic costs; nearly every country faces a public health challenge, whether from undernutrition, overweight/obesity, and/or micronutrient deficiencies. Malnutrition is a multisectoral, multi‐level problem that results from the complex interplay between household and individual decision‐making, agri‐food, health, and environmental systems that determine access to services and resources, and related policy processes. This paper reviews the theory and recent qualitative evidence (particularly from 2010 to 2016) in the public health and nutrition literature, on the role that agriculture plays in improving nutrition, how food systems are changing rapidly due to globalization, trade liberalization, and urbanization, and the implications this has for nutrition globally. The paper ends by summarizing recommendations that emerge from this research related to (i) knowledge, evidence, and communications, (ii) politics, governance, and policy, and (iii) capacity, leadership, and financing.https://doi.org/10.1002/gch2.201600002agriculturefood systemsnutritionSouth Asiasub‐Saharan Africa |
| spellingShingle | Stuart Gillespie Mara van den Bold Agriculture, Food Systems, and Nutrition: Meeting the Challenge Global Challenges agriculture food systems nutrition South Asia sub‐Saharan Africa |
| title | Agriculture, Food Systems, and Nutrition: Meeting the Challenge |
| title_full | Agriculture, Food Systems, and Nutrition: Meeting the Challenge |
| title_fullStr | Agriculture, Food Systems, and Nutrition: Meeting the Challenge |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agriculture, Food Systems, and Nutrition: Meeting the Challenge |
| title_short | Agriculture, Food Systems, and Nutrition: Meeting the Challenge |
| title_sort | agriculture food systems and nutrition meeting the challenge |
| topic | agriculture food systems nutrition South Asia sub‐Saharan Africa |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/gch2.201600002 |
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