Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability

To reorient food systems to ensure they deliver healthy diets that protect against multiple forms of malnutrition and diet-related disease and safeguard the environment, ecosystems, and natural resources, there is a need for better governance and accountability. However, decision-makers are often in...

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Autores principales: Herforth, Anna, Bellows, Alexandra L., Marshall, Quinn, McLaren, Rebecca, Beal, Ty, Nordhagen, Stella, Remans, Roseline, Estrada-Carmona, Natalia, Fanzo, Jessica
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/120452
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author Herforth, Anna
Bellows, Alexandra L.
Marshall, Quinn
McLaren, Rebecca
Beal, Ty
Nordhagen, Stella
Remans, Roseline
Estrada-Carmona, Natalia
Fanzo, Jessica
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Bellows, Alexandra L.
Estrada-Carmona, Natalia
Fanzo, Jessica
Herforth, Anna
Marshall, Quinn
McLaren, Rebecca
Nordhagen, Stella
Remans, Roseline
author_facet Herforth, Anna
Bellows, Alexandra L.
Marshall, Quinn
McLaren, Rebecca
Beal, Ty
Nordhagen, Stella
Remans, Roseline
Estrada-Carmona, Natalia
Fanzo, Jessica
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description To reorient food systems to ensure they deliver healthy diets that protect against multiple forms of malnutrition and diet-related disease and safeguard the environment, ecosystems, and natural resources, there is a need for better governance and accountability. However, decision-makers are often in the dark on how to navigate their food systems to achieve these multiple outcomes. Even where there is sufficient data to describe various elements, drivers, and outcomes of food systems, there is a lack of tools to assess how food systems are performing. This paper presents a diagnostic methodology for 39 indicators representing food supply, food environments, nutrition outcomes, and environmental outcomes that offer cutoffs to assess performance of national food systems. For each indicator, thresholds are presented for unlikely, potential, or likely challenge areas. This information can be used to generate actions and decisions on where and how to intervene in food systems to improve human and planetary health. A global assessment and two country case studies—Greece and Tanzania—illustrate how the diagnostics could spur decision options available to countries.
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spelling CGSpace1204522025-11-11T19:06:14Z Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability Herforth, Anna Bellows, Alexandra L. Marshall, Quinn McLaren, Rebecca Beal, Ty Nordhagen, Stella Remans, Roseline Estrada-Carmona, Natalia Fanzo, Jessica food systems healthy diets sustainable agriculture diagnostic techniques methodology decision support systems sistemas alimentarios dieta saludable agricultura sostenible To reorient food systems to ensure they deliver healthy diets that protect against multiple forms of malnutrition and diet-related disease and safeguard the environment, ecosystems, and natural resources, there is a need for better governance and accountability. However, decision-makers are often in the dark on how to navigate their food systems to achieve these multiple outcomes. Even where there is sufficient data to describe various elements, drivers, and outcomes of food systems, there is a lack of tools to assess how food systems are performing. This paper presents a diagnostic methodology for 39 indicators representing food supply, food environments, nutrition outcomes, and environmental outcomes that offer cutoffs to assess performance of national food systems. For each indicator, thresholds are presented for unlikely, potential, or likely challenge areas. This information can be used to generate actions and decisions on where and how to intervene in food systems to improve human and planetary health. A global assessment and two country case studies—Greece and Tanzania—illustrate how the diagnostics could spur decision options available to countries. 2022-07-29 2022-08-04T14:07:42Z 2022-08-04T14:07:42Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/120452 en Open Access application/pdf Herforth, A.; Bellows, A.L.; Marshall, Q.; McLaren, R.; Beal, T.; Nordhagen, S.; Remans, R.; Estrada Carmona, N.; Fanzo, J. (2022) Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability. PLoS ONE 17(7): e0270712. 21 p. ISSN: 1932-6203
spellingShingle food systems
healthy diets
sustainable agriculture
diagnostic techniques
methodology
decision support systems
sistemas alimentarios
dieta saludable
agricultura sostenible
Herforth, Anna
Bellows, Alexandra L.
Marshall, Quinn
McLaren, Rebecca
Beal, Ty
Nordhagen, Stella
Remans, Roseline
Estrada-Carmona, Natalia
Fanzo, Jessica
Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability
title Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability
title_full Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability
title_fullStr Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability
title_full_unstemmed Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability
title_short Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability
title_sort diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability
topic food systems
healthy diets
sustainable agriculture
diagnostic techniques
methodology
decision support systems
sistemas alimentarios
dieta saludable
agricultura sostenible
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/120452
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