Nutritious Subsistence Food Systems

Graham, Robin D.; Welch, Ross M.; Saunders, David; Ortiz-Monasterio, Iván; Bouis, Howarth E.; Bonierbale, Merideth; Haan, Stef de; Burgos, Gabriela; Thiele, G.; Liria, Reyna; Meisner, C. A.; Beebe, Steve; Potts, Michael; Kadian, M. S.; Hobbs, Peter; Gupta, R.K.; Twomlow, Steve

doi:10.1016/s0065-2113(04)92001-9

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“…Fruit and vegetable availability cannot meet population needs to achieve dietary recommendations in most countries (Siegel et al 2014;Keats and Wiggins 2014). Pulse availability has declined globally as a proportion of calories (Khoury et al 2014), with a decrease of almost one third from 1961 to 2009 including in East and South Asia (Keats and Wiggins 2014) where pulses are a nutritionally and culturally important part of traditional diets (Graham et al 2007;Bouis et al 2011). In Africa, the availability of pulses is about one third of estimated needs (Herforth 2015).…”

Section: How the Food Environment Affects Consumption Availabilitymentioning

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“…While real prices of staple grains have declined significantly, real prices of micronutrient-rich foods have increased over time (Gómez et al 2013;Bouis et al 2011;Graham et al 2007). High prices of non-staples relative to declining staple grain prices over time may have served to decrease their contribution to the diet, potentially resulting in lower-quality diets despite increased quantity of dietary energy consumption (Traill et al 2014;Pinstrup-Andersen 2013;Gómez et al 2013;Bouis 2000).…”

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The food environment, its effects on dietary consumption, and potential for measurement within agriculture-nutrition interventions

Herforth¹,

2015

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The food environment in markets constrains and signals consumers what to purchase. It encompasses availability, affordability, convenience, and desirability of various foods. The effect of income on dietary consumption is always modified by the food environment. Many agricultural interventions aim to improve incomes, increase food availability and reduce food prices. Their effects on nutrition could be better understood if food environment measures helped to explain how additional income is likely to be spent, and how food availability and prices change as a result of large-scale interventions. Additionally, measurement of the food environment could elucidate food access gaps and inform the design of nutrition-sensitive interventions. This paper reviews existing measures of the food environment, and then draws from these tools to suggest ways the food environment could be measured in future studies and monitoring.

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Section: Affordabilitymentioning

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The food environment, its effects on dietary consumption, and potential for measurement within agriculture-nutrition interventions

Herforth¹,

2015

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“…In the literature, results on the mineral composition including Fe, Zn, and b-carotene of seeds of various crops are reported as concentration (Velu et al 2006;Graham et al 2007;Cakmak 2008;Demirkiran 2009;Tiwari et al 2009) that refers to mass or molar ratio such as mg or moles kg À1 seed. But sometimes, the quantity of nutrients in plant parts or the whole plant is expressed as uptake or content (expressed as mg seed À1 or organ).…”

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Nutritionally Enhanced Staple Food Crops

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“…While food production has obviously increased overall, some have raised concerns that the world's reliance on a smaller number of food crops may make global food security more susceptible to local interruptions in production (Alston et al 2009;Ray et al 2013). Moreover, for at least some populations, a shift from traditional to Western diets has decreased their nutritional intake (Graham et al 2007;Kennedy et al 2005;Ruel 2003).…”

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Genomic breeding for food, environment and livelihoods

2015

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Land use management is a central challenge for the 21st century with unprecedented and competing demands to produce food, feed/fodder, fibre, fuel, and essential ecosystem services which sustain life. Global change requires rapid adaptation in current and emerging crops as well as in the foundation species of natural ecosystems. Revolutions in genomics and high throughput experimentation are transforming breeding so that adaptive traits in new environments can be predicted and selected more directly from germplasm collections of crops and wild species. This genomic breeding is now feasible in almost any species and has promise to help meet the need to feed and nourish over 9 billion people by 2050. Genomic techniques can accelerate our response to food security challenges of yield, quality and resilience and also address environmental security challenges. To achieve its potential there will need to be widespread and ongoing investments in the human capital to promote genomic breeding.

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Nutritious Subsistence Food Systems

Cited by 372 publications

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The food environment, its effects on dietary consumption, and potential for measurement within agriculture-nutrition interventions

The food environment, its effects on dietary consumption, and potential for measurement within agriculture-nutrition interventions

Nutritionally Enhanced Staple Food Crops

Genomic breeding for food, environment and livelihoods

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