Obesity rates are increasing almost everywhere in the world, although the pace and timing for this increase differ when populations from developed and developing countries are compared. The sharp...
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Understanding the economic costs attributable to unhealthy diets is crucial to inform health and agrifood investments in low- and middle-income countries experiencing nutrition transition. To review the current evidence...
Background The East Asia region is facing an increasing burden of overweight, obesity and related noncommunicable diseases, resulting from an ongoing nutrition transition. This study aimed to document the growing...
Background Indonesia is undergoing a nutrition transition (NT) comprised of rising rates of overweight/obesity and consumption of high fat food/snacks but is still struck by undernutrition, causing a double burden...
Healthy diets have been characterized as responding to four universal principles—nutrient adequacy, dietary diversity, macronutrient balance, and moderation. With rising incomes, diet concerns globally...
This report from the Tata–Cornell Institute at Cornell University focuses on food systems and nutrition in South Asia. The progress made in reducing the prevalence of hunger in the fourteen years leading to 2019...
Highlights: There is utility in combining large datasets on food systems for nutrition and health policy in LMICs. Decades of Gambian food system data show adequate gross...
Highlights: Sustainable Development Goal 2.1: Undernourishment and Food Insecurity The prevalence of undernourishment in the Asia and the Pacific region decreased to 8.4 percent in 2022 from 8.8 percent of the previous...
Key Messages: Africa is not on track to meet the food security and nutrition targets of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 – and the Malabo targets of ending hunger...
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Progress was made in Latin America and the Caribbean in the fight against hunger and food insecurity, driven by improvements in South America. Between 2021 and 2022...