Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

A key driver of obesity and diet-related illness globally has been the increased consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs). This paper aimed to identify the key actors, structures, incentives...

The school food environment is a key intervention point for influencing children’s and adolescents’ diets. As more countries establish school meal programs to provide critical nourishment to students...

Highlights: Urban food environments in developing countries have received little attention. We conduct a macro-scan of the urban food environment in Ghana. Results show that processed...

Highlights: We assess market food environments’ role for child diets and nutrition in Malawi. We develop a new methodology to characterize local market food environments...

School food environments contribute to children’s nutritional intake and overall health. As such, the World Health Organization and other public health organizations encourage policies that restrict...

While exact figures are limited on the consumption of ultra-processed food (UPF) in Africa, it is clear that since the 2000s and 2010s, there has been a continued spread of processed...

Unhealthy diets are among the main risk factors associated with non-communicable diseases (NCDs). In Sub Saharan Africa, NCDs were responsible for 37% of deaths in 2019...

Highlights: The document presents a comprehensive overview of the need to shift towards healthier diets and the possible solutions. Rationale for this shift - A recent slowdown in progress in reducing hunger...

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...

The report covers four key issues related to plant-based meat and the ultra-processed food category and provides five recommendations to address them. The author begins by highlighting the current...