The Micronutrient Deficiencies Challenge in African Food Systems

Barrett, Christopher B.; Bevis, Leah

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198733201.003.0004

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“…However, the core concepts of food availability, affordability, access, and appeal are key prerequisites to utilization and are also underlying components of food security and nutrition . Thus, they provide a common framework to analyze traditional and modern food systems and may carry significant promises in developing and developed countries as well as emerging economies, enabling convergence through intense and constant reciprocal flow between traditional and modern food and food systems . Improving our ability to link and target specific “A” commercial practices in fresh fruits, vegetables, and possibly other perishable and nonperishable agricultural food products may help scaling‐up efforts at reducing undernourishment and nutritional deficiencies in low‐ and middle‐income countries.…”

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“…Doing the same for local foods in Western countries can scale up the impact of the local food systems movement, still remaining on the edge at 1% of sales, and facilitate a more equitable access through all society strata in rural and urban contexts . Most critically, it can help prevent the deleterious nutrition transition in present and upcoming emerging economies, informing the modernization of traditional foods in a way that makes them more competitive with modern food, along the four A's dimensions …”

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A nutrition/health mindset on commercial Big Data and drivers of food demand in modern and traditional systems

Dubé

Labban

Moubarac

et al. 2014

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Building greater reciprocity between traditional and modern food systems and better convergence of human and economic development outcomes may enable the production and consumption of accessible, affordable, and appealing nutritious food for all. Information being key to such transformations, this roadmap paper offers a strategy that capitalizes on Big Data and advanced analytics, setting the foundation for an integrative intersectoral knowledge platform to better inform and monitor behavioral change and ecosystem transformation. Building upon the four P's of marketing (product, price, promotion, placement), we examine digital commercial marketing data through the lenses of the four A's of food security (availability, accessibility, affordability, appeal) using advanced consumer choice analytics for archetypal traditional (fresh fruits and vegetables) and modern (soft drinks) product categories. We demonstrate that business practices typically associated with the latter also have an important, if not more important, impact on purchases of the former category. Implications and limitations of the approach are discussed.

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Section: General Discussion and Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A nutrition/health mindset on commercial Big Data and drivers of food demand in modern and traditional systems

Dubé

Labban

Moubarac

et al. 2014

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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“…In terms of micronutrients, we particularly concentrate on iron, zinc, and vitamin A. Deficiencies in these three micronutrients are responsible for the most important nutritional disorders in large parts of the developing world (Barrett and Bevis, 2015;IFPRI, 2015). Recent studies have used calorie and micronutrient consumption levels to assess nutritional impacts of innovations in African food supply chains (Chiputwa and Qaim, 2016;Chege et al, 2015).…”

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Farm production diversity and dietary quality: linkages and measurement issues

2018

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractRecent research has analyzed whether higher levels of farm production diversity contribute to improved dietary quality in smallholder households. We add to this literature by using different indicators, thus testing the robustness of previous findings and helping to better understand the underlying linkages. The analysis builds on data from Indonesia, Kenya, and Uganda. Farm diversity measured through a simple species count has a small positive effect on dietary quality, either expressed in terms of dietary diversity scores or micronutrient consumption levels. However, when measuring production diversity in terms of the number of food groups produced, the effect turns insignificant in most cases. Further analysis suggests that diverse subsistence production contributes less to dietary quality than cash income generated through market sales. Much of the food diversity consumed in farm households is purchased from the market. If farm diversification responds to market incentives and builds on comparative advantage, it can contribute to improved income and nutrition. This may also involve cash crop production. On the other hand, increasing the number of food groups produced on the farm independent of market incentives will foster subsistence, reduce cash incomes, and thus rather worsen dietary quality. We conclude that from a nutrition perspective improving market access is more important than farm diversification as such.

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“…In one such study, Abdulai and Aubert () find that rising income translates into increased demand for only certain micronutrients, such as vitamin A, B12, calcium, and zinc, while the demand for others remains more or less the same. Another study by Barrett and Bevis () concluded that micronutrient deficiencies take more time to decline with income growth compared to macronutrient deficiencies. This implies that households in developing countries which are able to fulfill their first‐order caloric needs might still suffer from micronutrient deficiencies.…”

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Health and hunger: nutrient response to income depending on caloric availability in Nepal

Ali

Villa

Joshi

2018

Agricultural Economics

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Using data from NLSS III, we estimate nutrient-income elasticities for macronutrients, vitamins, and minerals. We further allow for differential nutrient demand response to income depending on where a household is in the caloric availability distribution. We find that some nutrients are income inelastic indicating that they are necessity goods while others are relatively income elastic. We further test and reject equivalent nutrientincome elasticities across the caloric availability distribution. Households in the lowest calorie quintile have highly income elastic nutrient demand leaving them vulnerable to income fluctuations. Moreover, as households meet their first-order caloric needs, they substitute away from cheap calorie-dense staples toward more expensive nutrient-dense foods. Finally, for most nutrients, households in the highest calorie quintile exhibit more elastic nutrient demand, similar to households in the lowest quintile. Our results suggest that policies aimed at improving income will likely also improve household nutrient availability, particularly for the most calorie poor households. They further suggest that policies aimed at protecting poor households from negative income shocks will also likely yield nutritional benefits.JEL classifications: I12, I15, O12, O15

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The Micronutrient Deficiencies Challenge in African Food Systems

Cited by 27 publications

References 52 publications

A nutrition/health mindset on commercial Big Data and drivers of food demand in modern and traditional systems

A nutrition/health mindset on commercial Big Data and drivers of food demand in modern and traditional systems

Farm production diversity and dietary quality: linkages and measurement issues

Health and hunger: nutrient response to income depending on caloric availability in Nepal

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