Equity in agriculture-nutrition-health research: a scoping review

Harris, Jody; Tan, Winson; Mitchell, Becky; Zayed, Dina

doi:10.1093/nutrit/nuab001

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“…There is now a clear acknowledgement that deeper structural issues underpinning inequity among groups are driving change or stagnation in stunting reductions globally (Harris & Nisbett, 2018;Development Initiatives, 2020b;Harris et al, 2021), and the decomposition analysis above has shed light on the particular configuration of determinants in the Vietnamese context. Overall, we find that the significant reductions in child undernutrition in Vietnam are driven by improvements in wealth, female education, and nutrition-relevant health services, as well as an undefined set of determinants which we hypothesise would include food security, diets and breastfeeding.…”

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Nobody left behind? Equity and the drivers of stunting reduction in Vietnamese ethnic minority populations

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Vietnam has successfully reduced population stunting, but ethnic minority groups are being systematically left behind, limiting progress on national reductions. This mixed methods study aims to understand how policy drivers of stunting reduction differ between ethnic majority and minority communities. We used decomposition analysis to explain key determinants of stunting change between 2000 and 2010; and framework analysis to qualitatively assess changes in policy, actors and narratives that have underpinned these over decades. Our analysis shows that stunting reductions are associated with increased household wealth (accounting for 61% of change), improved access to specific health services (16%), and changes in level of maternal education (12%). Despite multiple actors involved in change and a large set of policies designed to address inequities, many among Vietnam’s defined ethnic minority groups are not finding themselves able to effectively engage with central government plans for their communities, and central policies often do not consider their preferences or limitations. This in turn impacts the nutrition of minority groups through the determinants above. Vietnam has achieved the easier portion of stunting reduction through national economic growth and sustained commitment to socially-oriented policy. In order to tackle the remaining pockets of high malnutrition, more attention, thought and funding will need to focus on marginalised ethnic minority communities. The current national development discourse aims to incorporate minorities into mainstream majority systems. This paper argues that policy should rather take into account their particular needs and preferences to address and overcome the identified determinants of malnutrition.

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“…This paper uses a scoping review [34,35] to assess the current evidence on women's entrepreneurship issues in agroecology and food systems. Given the broad range of key topics related to women's entrepreneurship issues in agroecology and food systems, topically relevant and published systematic reviews were purposively sampled to provide a baseline state of the evidence.…”

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Agroecological Business Model: A Pillar Stone for Women’s Entrepreneurship in Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

Dagoudo¹,

Ssekyewa²,

Tovignan³

et al. 2023

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The current challenges facing agriculture and food systems demand innovations in system design that potentially empower the weakest component in social, economic, and environmental contexts. Recognizing women’s importance in agriculture and food systems, the agroecological business model is one solution for women to gain access to resources (land, finance, credit, etc.), empower their capacity, become entrepreneurs, and improve organic agriculture production and market. This paper focuses on agroecological business models and women’s entrepreneurship in agroecology and sustainable food systems through a scoping review through Google Scholar, Science Direct, and the FAO website. The findings highlight how the co-creation of knowledge between organic producers and female entrepreneurs can increase the efficiency of organic agriculture production. However, women’s entrepreneurship in eco-efficient organic production reinforces participatory guarantee systems, which are crucial for agroecology and sustainable food systems. The conceptual model shows the interdependence between women’s entrepreneurship, organic agriculture production, and food systems through an agroecological business model, which is a key driver for women’s access to resources and guarantees a resilient market for organic agricultural crops. This is a challenging entry point that provides opportunities for co-learning in sustainable food systems that can be shaped for significant positive change. Addressing co-learning food systems through women’s entrepreneurship is an opportunity for all stakeholders to achieve sustainability in food systems. This is critical for those involved in the agroecological transition and the achievement of sustainable development goals.

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“…Equity is central to the definition of food security, which exists when 'all people, at all times, have physical, economic, and social access to a diet that meets their nutritional needs and dietary preferences' (12,13). Yet only recently has equity received direct attention in frameworks related to nutrition, food security, and diets (11,(14)(15)(16).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Scholars of justice define inequity as any inequality in outcomes (differences across groups) that is avoidable with positive human intervention on the grounds of inherent unfairness (10,16,17). Structural inequities refer to the power imbalances that marginalise some groups while protecting the power of others (1,11,18,19).…”

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“…Various aspects of one's identity confer relative privilege or oppression, as stipulated by the framework of intersectionality (26). The interaction between these aspects of identity produces context-specific net effects that structure a person's interactions in daily life and engagement with systems, and food systems are no exception (16,(26)(27)(28)(29).…”

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Inequity in access to healthy foods

Schneider¹,

Bellows²,

Downs³

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The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the UN in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Working with governments, businesses and civil society, we aim to transform food systems so that they deliver more nutritious food for all people, especially the most vulnerable. ABOUT FSECThe Food System Economics Commission (FSEC) is an independent academic commission set up to analyse the economics of a sustainable food system transformation and to identify a feasible agenda for implementing positive change. Our goal is to present lessons and feasible options for economic decisionmakers on what needs to be done to ensure a more inclusive, healthier, and nature-positive future for our food systems, by drawing on the best scientific analysis from economics and across the social sciences.

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Equity in agriculture-nutrition-health research: a scoping review

Cited by 19 publications

References 36 publications

Nobody left behind? Equity and the drivers of stunting reduction in Vietnamese ethnic minority populations

Nobody left behind? Equity and the drivers of stunting reduction in Vietnamese ethnic minority populations

Agroecological Business Model: A Pillar Stone for Women’s Entrepreneurship in Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

Inequity in access to healthy foods

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