Shaping food environments to support sustainable healthy diets in low and middle-income countries

Kumar, S and Das, A and Kasala, K and Ridoutt, B G (2023) Shaping food environments to support sustainable healthy diets in low and middle-income countries. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (TSI), 7. 01-06. ISSN 2571-581X

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Abstract

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 a

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Global Research Program - Enabling Systems Transformation
CRP:	UNSPECIFIED
Uncontrolled Keywords:	food environment, framework, sustainable healthy diet, lowandmiddle-income countries (LMICs), food system
Subjects:	Others > Food and Nutrition Others > Food Security
Depositing User:	Mr Nagaraju T
Date Deposited:	15 Jun 2023 03:57
Last Modified:	15 Jun 2023 03:57
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/12111
Official URL:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs...
Projects:	UNSPECIFIED
Funders:	Indian Council of Agricultural Research, CRP Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)
Acknowledgement:	UNSPECIFIED
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