Analyzing food value chains for nutrition goals

Morgan, Emily; Hawkes, Corinna; Dangour, Alan D.; Lock, Karen

doi:10.1080/19320248.2018.1434106

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“…82 In addition, food value chains analyses can be used to address the underlying determinants of nutrientpoor diets (such as by applying tools like the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and Institute of Development Studies' 'Nutritious Agriculture by Design'). 83 Expanding food policy-makers' consideration of nutrition to 'nourishing' food (not simply 'enough' food) will require critical engagement on the part of the health sector with the political economy of food systems. Such an expansion will require a new way of thinking about food policy, identified in this study as paradigm-level change ('third order' change, to use Hall's term).…”

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Understanding the Impact of Historical Policy Legacies on Nutrition Policy Space: Economic Policy Agendas and Current Food Policy Paradigms in Ghana

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Int J Health Policy Manag

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Background: The global food system is not delivering affordable, healthy, diverse diets, which are needed to address malnutrition in all its forms for sustainable development. This will require policy change across the economic sectors that govern food systems, including agriculture, trade, finance, commerce and industry – a goal that has been beset by political challenges. These sectors have been strongly influenced by entrenched policy agendas and paradigms supported by influential global actors such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Methods: This study draws on the concept of path dependency to examine how historical economic policy agendas and paradigms have influenced current food and nutrition policy and politics in Ghana. Qualitative data were collected through interviews with 29 relevant policy actors, and documentary data were collected from current policies, academic and grey literature, historical budget statements and World Bank Group Archives (1950-present). Results: Despite increased political priority for nutrition in Ghana, its integration into food policy remains limited. Food policy agendas are strongly focused on production, employment and economic returns, and existing market-based incentives do not support a nutrition-sensitive food supply. This policy focus appears to be rooted in a liberal economic approach to food policy arising from structural adjustment in the 1980s and trade liberalization in the 1990s, combined with historical experience of ‘failure’ of food policy intervention and an entrenched narrowly economic conception of food security. Conclusion: This study suggests that attention to policy paradigms, in addition to specific points of policy change, will be essential for improving the outcomes of food systems for nutrition. An historical perspective can provide food and health policy-makers with insights to foster the revisioning of food policy to address multiple national policy objectives, including nutrition.

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Understanding the Impact of Historical Policy Legacies on Nutrition Policy Space: Economic Policy Agendas and Current Food Policy Paradigms in Ghana

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Winters

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“…Also, if more fruits were consumed, what other foods might they displace and what might be the nutritional implications. Recent framework documents note the need for such a transition (e.g., [26]), but this has yet to be widely translated into practice.…”

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“…For all of the above-mentioned reasons, the value chain approach to nutrition is suggested as important, but experience so far is rather limited [26]. Food value chains are distinguished from supply chains.…”

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Value Chains and Diet Quality: A Review of Impact Pathways and Intervention Strategies

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Low and middle-income countries increasingly face a triple burden of malnutrition encompassing undernutrition, micronutrient deficiency, and excessive energy consumption contributing to overweight and obesity. Food systems are also becoming more complex, supported by investments in food processing and retailing. Traditional approaches addressing hunger, typically based on agricultural development, are deemed insufficient alone to address the problem and attention is now being directed to food value chains, although experience is currently limited. To assess the state of science and identify knowledge gaps, an integrative review of the broad topic of value chains and diet quality was undertaken, with particular focus on interventions and their related impact pathways. Interventions were classified according to their primary orientation: to increase the availability, accessibility, or desirability of nutritious food. We identified 24 separate interventions associated with 10 different impact pathways, demonstrating the numerous entry points and large potential for value chain interventions to influence diet quality. However, case study evidence regarding effectiveness remains scant. Most studies addressed individual nutrient-rich commodities that could address a nutritional deficiency in the community of interest. Rarely was overall diet quality assessed, and future studies could benefit from taking a wider perspective of dietary patterns and food substitutions. The value chain analytical approach was deemed valuable due to its consumer orientation that seeks to understand how food products are used and what motivates their choice. The systems perspective is also important as it considers the roles of actors involved in food production, distribution, marketing, and regulation. However, few studies directly engaged with the subject of the local food environment as the bridge connecting food production and food choice. The challenge is to combat the increasing prevalence of processed foods of low nutritional value through interventions that lead to nutritious food becoming more conveniently available, affordable, and desirable.

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“…A nutrition-sensitive value chain approach is one that “explicitly incorporates nutrition objectives and indicators into agriculture and addresses the utilization dimension of food and nutrition security” ( 3 ), thereby underpinning chain activities or processes that consider the nutritional status of food as a consumer benefit ( 9 ). As such, a value-chain contribution to nutritional outcomes is possible because value-chain approaches provide opportunities to retain and add nutritional value or prevent loss along the food chain ( 10 , 11 ). Thereby, well-planned and inclusive agri-food value-chain interventions have high potential to promote supply and consumption of nutritious foods to sustainably reduce hunger ( 9 , 12 – 14 ).…”

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Labeling Nutrition-Sensitive Food Chains: A Consumer Preference Analysis of Milk Products

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While nutrition-sensitive value-chain approaches are strongly advocated, studies on consumer preferences for such interventions are lacking. This study aims to fill this gap by examining a nutrition-sensitive chain labeling scheme, using the Ugandan dairy sector as a case. A survey was conducted among 250 consumers, primarily eliciting perceptions of the importance of a nutrition-sensitive chain label compared to nutrition claims/facts. In addition, a choice-based conjoint experiment was designed with nutrition label, brand, fat content, and price as attributes. Findings show that nutrition-sensitive chain labeling was more positively perceived by consumers than by nutrition claims/facts. Ordered logistic regression analysis indicated that BMI, nutrition knowledge, and label use influenced consumers' perceived importance of a nutrition-sensitive chain label relative to sex, age, children, and milk purchase frequency for nutrition claims/facts. This is confirmed by the higher utilities for the nutrition-sensitive chain label in our conjoint experiment. Future research should focus on the integration of nutrition-sensitive chain labeling with existing labels in a way that promotes candid interpretation by consumers. Industrial and policy actors in the agri-food sector can use these findings to innovate and regulate appropriate labeling schemes in the context of nutrition-sensitive value chains.

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Analyzing food value chains for nutrition goals

Cited by 22 publications

References 46 publications

Understanding the Impact of Historical Policy Legacies on Nutrition Policy Space: Economic Policy Agendas and Current Food Policy Paradigms in Ghana

Understanding the Impact of Historical Policy Legacies on Nutrition Policy Space: Economic Policy Agendas and Current Food Policy Paradigms in Ghana

Value Chains and Diet Quality: A Review of Impact Pathways and Intervention Strategies

Labeling Nutrition-Sensitive Food Chains: A Consumer Preference Analysis of Milk Products

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