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Rationale and objective: Improving diet quality while decreasing environmental impacts is an important challenge for a healthy and sustainable food system.
We conduct a synthetic review of the literature examining relationships between domains of women’s empowerment and food system outcomes.
Understanding the types of food systems interventions that foster women’s empowerment and the types of women that are able to benefit from different interventions is important for development policy.
Changing food systems and infectious disease risks in low-income and middle-income countries
The emergence of COVID-19 has drawn the attention of health researchers sharply back to the role that food systems can play in generating human disease burden.
Transforming food systems to deliver nutritious foods: The vital roles of fortification and biofortification
An estimated 2 billion people globally are affected by micronutrient deficiencies, while around one third of the global population is at risk of at least one micronutrient deficiency.
The vital roles of blue foods in the global food system
Blue foods play a central role in food and nutrition security for billions of people and are a cornerstone of the livelihoods, economies, and cultures of many coastal and riparian communities.
Perspective: Food environment research priorities for Africa: Lessons from the Africa food environment research network
Over the last 2 decades, many African countries have undergone dietary and nutrition transitions fueled by globalization, rapid urbanization, and development.
Tensions and coalitions: A new trade agreement affects the policy space for nutrition in Vietnam
Global trade has shaped food systems over centuries, but modern trade agreements are hastening these changes and making them more complex, with implications for public health and nutrition transition.
Building more resilient food systems: Lessons and policy recommendations from the COVID-19 pandemic
Two years in, the long-term health and economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to influence poverty, food systems, and food security.
The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized a multitude of development challenges and opportunities, some of which are new and some ongoing.
COVID-19 impacts on food systems, poverty, and diets: Lessons learned from country-level analyses
With the outbreak of COVID-19, governments attempted to contain the spread of the virus by limiting the movement and interaction of people through a variety of measures, including restrictions on domestic and international travel, social distancin
Strategies and interventions for healthy adolescent growth, nutrition, and development
Sustainable food systems and nutrition in the 21st century: A report from the 22nd annual harvard nutrition obesity symposium
Food systems are at the center of a brewing storm consisting of a rapidly changing climate, rising hunger and malnutrition and significant social inequities.
The scientific body of evidence supporting biofortification spans over two decades.
Resilient food systems. Zoonoses transmission. Food safety in fresh-food markets.
Gender in agriculture and food systems
Malnutrition, largely attributable to poor diets among both the rich and poor, presents a growing challenge in Nigeria.
Rigorous monitoring is necessary to guide food system transformation in the countdown to the 2030 global goals
Food systems that support healthy diets in sustainable, resilient, just, and equitable ways can engender progress in eradicating poverty and malnutrition; protecting human rights; and restoring natural resources.