A call to action to reshape evidence synthesis and use for nutrition policy

Lawrence, Mark; Naudé, Celeste E; Armstrong, Rebecca; Bero, Lisa; Covic, Namukolo; Durão, Solange; Ghersi, Davina; Macdonald, Geraldine; MacLehose, Harriet; Margetts, Barrie; Tovey, David; Volmink, Jimmy; Young, Taryn

doi:10.1002/14651858.ed000118

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“…The reality is that we very much have an elite HIC view of food security and nutrition for those living in LMICs. This situation presents not only huge questions over democracy and equity of research in this area, but also serves to ignore LMIC knowledge, experiences, and perspectives of their challenges ( Lawrence et al, 2016 ). HIC bias has also meant that there has been significant underinvestment in research and technology development for crops and livestock important to poor farmers living in low-income contexts.…”

Section: Research and Innovation Remain Essentialmentioning

confidence: 99%

A research vision for food systems in the 2020s: Defying the status quo

Fanzo

Covic²,

Dobermann³

et al. 2020

Global Food Security

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Highlights Research and science should not only inform food and environmental policy but should be adopted and mainstreamed into actions at all levels. Food systems are faced with grander and interconnected challenges and constraints that bring about new research questions. Research has a vital role in charting a positive and sustainable direction for global food security, nutrition, and health. The status quo must be challenged to shape food systems transformation to deliver sustainable, healthier diets. Global Food Security provides a platform where evidence is shared in an accessible manner for those who need to act on it.

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Section: Research and Innovation Remain Essentialmentioning

confidence: 99%

A research vision for food systems in the 2020s: Defying the status quo

Fanzo

Covic²,

Dobermann³

et al. 2020

Global Food Security

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“…Most of the nutrition guidelines and policy statements in the World Health Organization’s e-Library of Evidence for Nutrition Actions (eLENA) database of systematic reviews and the Cochrane Library relate to single nutrient interventions, which can be evaluated by randomised trials 10. And the majority of nutrition systematic reviews in the Cochrane Library relate to evidence derived from studies of specific nutrients rather than of foods, dietary pattern, or food systems 11. As well as availability of evidence, selection of topics for systematic reviews may be affected by reviewers’ interest in narrower, clinical topics.…”

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“…Nutrition researchers1020212223 and organisations such as Cochrane11 are calling for reform of conventional evidence synthesis and translation approaches so they are better able to overcome limitations in available evidence and include evidence relevant to modern nutrition problems. Below we give two examples of reforms in public health.…”

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Making nutrition guidelines fit for purpose

Bero

Norris

Lawrence

2019

BMJ

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“…Yet, most systematic reviews have focused on nutrition specific interventions and supplements and curative approaches. The available methods to assess evidence in medicine might not be readily applicable to wider dietary and food system interventions ( 40 ) . The multi-sectoral nature of nutrition research presents particular challenges to identify and retrieve relevant papers.…”

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Reducing waste in nutritional epidemiology: review and perspectives

2019

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We discuss efforts in improving the value of nutrition research. We organised the paper in five research stages: Stage 1: research priority setting; Stage 2: research design, conduct and analysis; Stage 3: research regulation and management; Stage 4: research accessibility and Stage 5: research reporting and publishing. Along the stages of the research cycle, varied initiatives exist to improve the quality and added value of nutrition research. However, efforts are focused on single stages of the research cycle without vision of the research system as a whole. Although research on nutrition research has been limited, it has potential to improve the quality of nutrition research and develop new tools and instruments for this purpose. A comprehensive assessment of the magnitude of research waste in nutrition and consensus on priority actions is needed. The nutrition research community at large needs to have open discussions on the usefulness of these tools and lead suitable efforts to enhance nutrition research across the stages of the research cycle. Capacity building is essential and considerations of nutrition research quality are vital to be integrated in training efforts of nutrition researchers.

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A call to action to reshape evidence synthesis and use for nutrition policy

Abstract: EditorialIFPRI5; CRP4; B Promoting healthy food systems; DCAPHND; A4NHNon-PRCGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

A research vision for food systems in the 2020s: Defying the status quo

A research vision for food systems in the 2020s: Defying the status quo

Making nutrition guidelines fit for purpose

Reducing waste in nutritional epidemiology: review and perspectives

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