Assessing the rural food environment for advancing sustainable healthy diets: Insights from India

Kumar, Surendra; Das, Abhishek; Kasala, Kavitha; Ridoutt, Bradley G.; Patan, Elias Khan; Bogard, Jessica R.; Padmaja, R; Pramanik, Soumitra; Lim-Camacho, Lilly; Nedumaran, Swamikannu

doi:10.1016/j.jafr.2023.100588

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“…Modern trends to consume more sustainable diets have helped citizens to shift their diets according to sustainable development principles. The work by Kumar et al [ 4 ] highlights the connection between agriculture, food environments, and nutritional outcomes, giving insightful hints to guide policy actions towards achieving food security and nutrition in rural regions in low- and middle-income countries where food environments are quickly changing. The work by Guiné et al [ 5 ] with participants from 16 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Romania, United States of America), showed that participants tend to shape their food choices according to two types of concerns: purely environmental concerns and sustainability allied to quality concerns.…”

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The Second Edition of Motivations Associated with Food Choices and Eating Practices

Guiné

2023

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The Second Edition of Motivations Associated with Food Choices and Eating Practices

Guiné

2023

Foods

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How do farmers’ perceptions of food environment affect their consumption of aquatic products? Evidence from inland provinces in Northern China

Zheng,

Zhao,

Xiao

2024

Aquaculture Economics & Management

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Transforming food environments: a global lens on challenges and opportunities for achieving healthy and sustainable diets for all

Goh,

Sobratee-Fajurally,

Allegretti

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Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Food environments are rapidly changing globally, both in developed and developing contexts, contributing to poor dietary habits and environmental concerns. As a result, more than 80% of countries in the world face different forms of malnutrition, while the environment faces further degradation due to unsustainable production and consumption patterns. Understanding food environments in diverse settings via a global lens is critical for facilitating the global transition to sustainable and healthy food environments. A virtual workshop was held with stakeholders from five nations (Germany, Ghana, Malaysia, South Africa, and Tanzania) representing varying levels of development to interrogate global food environment concerns and propose cross cutting thematic areas that may be explored and addressed through policy change and intervention. The workshop initiated a transdisciplinary project to shape food environments for sustainable and healthy diets. The Reference Manual for Convenors of Food Systems Summit Dialogues for United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) (United Nations, 2020) was used as guidance to ensure that an inclusive mix of stakeholders were invited. The stakeholders included key players from public and private sectors in disciplines of agriculture, agro-forestry, environment and ecology, education, food retail and market, trade and commerce, health care and nutrition. Following the workshop discussion, the findings were analyzed using a general inductive approach. Through triangulation of findings, we identified the common challenges and opportunities for achieving collective nutritional, social and environmental sustainability in the modern food environments, which have become more universal globally. It is evident that research and data are essential for sustainable development of food systems, while Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17 – Partnership for the Goals - should be placed at the core of the transformative process. We proposed several research-driven transdisciplinary interventions to facilitate a paradigm shift from the profit logic model over everything else, and to counter the existing policy fragmentation and systemic challenges to making food environments nutrition-sensitive and socially and environmentally sustainable.

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Assessing the rural food environment for advancing sustainable healthy diets: Insights from India

Cited by 3 publications

References 38 publications

The Second Edition of Motivations Associated with Food Choices and Eating Practices

The Second Edition of Motivations Associated with Food Choices and Eating Practices

How do farmers’ perceptions of food environment affect their consumption of aquatic products? Evidence from inland provinces in Northern China

Transforming food environments: a global lens on challenges and opportunities for achieving healthy and sustainable diets for all

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