Metrics to analyze and improve diets through food systems in low and middle income countries
Taking a food systems approach is a promising strategy for improving diets. Implementing such an approach would require the use of a comprehensive set of metrics to characterize food systems, set meaningful goals, track food system performance, and evaluate the impacts of food system interventions....
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| author | Melesse, Mequanint B. Berg, Marrit van den Béné, Christophe de Brauw, Alan Brouwer, Inge D. |
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| author_facet | Melesse, Mequanint B. Berg, Marrit van den Béné, Christophe de Brauw, Alan Brouwer, Inge D. |
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| description | Taking a food systems approach is a promising strategy for improving diets. Implementing such an approach would require the use of a comprehensive set of metrics to characterize food systems, set meaningful goals, track food system performance, and evaluate the impacts of food system interventions. Food system metrics are also useful to structure debates and communicate to policy makers and the general public. This paper provides an updated analytical framework of food systems and uses this to identify systematically relevant metrics and indicators based on data availability in low and middle income countries. We conclude that public data are relatively well available for food system drivers and outcomes, but not for all of the food system activities. With only minor additional investments, existing surveys could be extended to cover a large part of the required additional data. For some indicators, however, targeted data collection efforts are needed. As the list of indicators partly overlaps with the indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs), part of the collected data could serve not only to describe and monitor food systems, but also to track progress towards attaining the SDGs. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1091742025-11-12T05:34:43Z Metrics to analyze and improve diets through food systems in low and middle income countries Melesse, Mequanint B. Berg, Marrit van den Béné, Christophe de Brauw, Alan Brouwer, Inge D. food production health indicators food losses malnutrition developing countries indicadores diet sustainable development goals food systems sistemas alimentarios Taking a food systems approach is a promising strategy for improving diets. Implementing such an approach would require the use of a comprehensive set of metrics to characterize food systems, set meaningful goals, track food system performance, and evaluate the impacts of food system interventions. Food system metrics are also useful to structure debates and communicate to policy makers and the general public. This paper provides an updated analytical framework of food systems and uses this to identify systematically relevant metrics and indicators based on data availability in low and middle income countries. We conclude that public data are relatively well available for food system drivers and outcomes, but not for all of the food system activities. With only minor additional investments, existing surveys could be extended to cover a large part of the required additional data. For some indicators, however, targeted data collection efforts are needed. As the list of indicators partly overlaps with the indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs), part of the collected data could serve not only to describe and monitor food systems, but also to track progress towards attaining the SDGs. 2020-10 2020-09-02T15:39:52Z 2020-09-02T15:39:52Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/109174 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133351 Open Access application/pdf Springer Melesse, M.B.; van den Berg, M.; Béné, C.; de Brauw, A.; Brouwer, I.D. (2020) Metrics to analyze and improve diets through food systems in low and middle income countries. Food Security, Online first paper (30 August 2020). 23 p. ISSN: 1876-4517 |
| spellingShingle | food production health indicators food losses malnutrition developing countries indicadores diet sustainable development goals food systems sistemas alimentarios Melesse, Mequanint B. Berg, Marrit van den Béné, Christophe de Brauw, Alan Brouwer, Inge D. Metrics to analyze and improve diets through food systems in low and middle income countries |
| title | Metrics to analyze and improve diets through food systems in low and middle income countries |
| title_full | Metrics to analyze and improve diets through food systems in low and middle income countries |
| title_fullStr | Metrics to analyze and improve diets through food systems in low and middle income countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Metrics to analyze and improve diets through food systems in low and middle income countries |
| title_short | Metrics to analyze and improve diets through food systems in low and middle income countries |
| title_sort | metrics to analyze and improve diets through food systems in low and middle income countries |
| topic | food production health indicators food losses malnutrition developing countries indicadores diet sustainable development goals food systems sistemas alimentarios |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/109174 |
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