The economics of malnutrition: Dietary transition and food system transformation

Masters, William A.; Finaret, Amelia B.; Block, Steven A.

doi:10.1016/bs.hesagr.2022.03.006

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“…In this context, the food-price-control policy, which currently includes many products that are not considered healthy, and the food-aid policy for needy families, which suffers from a rather low budget, must be reconsidered. Many families tend to consume unhealthy food not for economic reasons but due to lack of awareness or lack of understanding of the health consequences [43]. It follows that nutritional education and advocacy (including limiting the advertising of harmful food) should be an integral part of food policy.…”

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Food Security in Israel: Challenges and Policies

Kimhi

2024

Foods

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This article analyzes Israel’s food security in comparison to other developed countries, using multiple indicators divided into four sections: food availability, food affordability, food quality and safety, and natural resources and resilience. Overall, the state of food security in Israel is better than in most countries, but the threats to food security arising from the triple risk of climate change, international conflicts, and disruptions in global supply chains, require better preparation for the future. Israel’s population growth and the slowdown in the growth rate of its agricultural production, as well as the short-term political desire to reduce prices, are leading the country to increasingly rely on food imports. Such imports expose Israel to even greater global risks, and require the formulation of a risk-management strategy that will balance local production and imports. The global triple risk to food security is currently exacerbated for Israel by the risk of shortage of labor due to the security situation, making this risk-management strategy even more necessary. This calls for the establishment of a governmental authority to oversee the formulation of a long-term food-security strategy, to break it down into feasible objectives and policy measures, and to supervise their implementation. Most importantly, in order to maintain and perhaps even enhance the productive capacity of the agricultural sector, the government must reinstall trust between farmers and the state by establishing a stable long-term policy environment.

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Food Security in Israel: Challenges and Policies

Kimhi

2024

Foods

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“…The data and methods used to compute least-cost healthy diets provide a price index for retail foods as inputs to a population’s long-term health, in contrast to the consumer price index that reflects foods actually consumed based on ability and willingness to pay for different foods based on their taste, culinary habits, time, and fuel costs for meal preparation, as well as commercial marketing, culture, and aspirations that influence food choice. As shown in the literature review of Masters, Finaret and Block (2022) , individuals cannot observe the nutritional composition of food, or know how that composition affects their disease risk and longevity, and consumers also have other objectives in addition to health. Computing least-cost healthy diets reveals whether a population that consumes unhealthy diets does so because of poor access, due to either unusually high prices or insufficient income to buy the least expensive locally available healthy diets, or because healthful items are displaced by unhealthy diets due to the many other attributes of each item that drive food choice.…”

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Trade policy reform, retail food prices and access to healthy diets worldwide

Gilbert,

Costlow,

Matteson

et al. 2024

World Development

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“…Several studies indicate that diet costs are associated with dietary quality and also food safety. Therefore, people who change their diet pattern for economic reasons may develop a range of nutritionally related disorders and diseases, from so-called over-nutrition to or with under-nutrition even within the one household [17].…”

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State of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in N'Djamena, Chad

Himeda

Béchir

Aboubakar³

et al. 2022

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Food plays a significant role in health. Fruits and vegetables are an important component of a healthy diet and, when consumed daily in sufficient quantities, they could help to prevent major conditions, such as cardiovascular disease and certain cancers. The objective of the study is to assess the state of consumption of fruits and vegetables by the population of the city of N'Djamena. Through a descriptive cross-sectional analysis, this study will provide information on fruit and vegetable consumption of 440 households in the 10 districts in the city of N'Djamena in Chad from February 20 to June 20, 2015. The study described the hygiene conditions of fruits and vegetables, the timing of fruit consumption and the portions of fruits and vegetables consumed per day in N'Djamena. The results show that 60% of those surveyed are male and 40% female. The age group (25-40 years) represents 79.31% of the respondents, followed by the group (41-55 years) with 17.93% and 2.75% for the age group between 56 and 75 years. As for the socio-professional category, the results reveal that 31.72% of those surveyed are civil servants. The results show that households whose size varies between 0 and 5 people represent 45.51% against 31.03% for households whose size varies from 6 to 10 people. It should be noted that 11.03% of households spend a daily food ration less than or equal to 1,5 $, 24.13% of households spend between 1,5 to 3 $ per day for their daily food ration and 28.27% of households use a sum ranging from 3 to 4,5 $. The majority of respondents (93.79%) do not respect hygienic practice while 20% of respondents consume one serving of fruits and vegetables per day (per person) and 39.31% consume two portions. The impact of socio-economic difficulties on fruit and vegetable consumption is confirmed. The high household size and low daily expenses for food does not allow them to consume the 5 recommended portions. This insufficient consumption of fruits and vegetables is part of a context of galloping urbanization and rising food prices. One prospect raised is to consider further surveys in population subgroups accompanied by nutrition education in order to improve the consumption of this food group.

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The economics of malnutrition: Dietary transition and food system transformation

Cited by 8 publications

References 218 publications

Food Security in Israel: Challenges and Policies

Food Security in Israel: Challenges and Policies

Trade policy reform, retail food prices and access to healthy diets worldwide

State of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in N'Djamena, Chad

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