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3 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet
3 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet Eating well takes money – and also time, wise choices, and cooking skills. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images The COVID-19 pandemic has caused price spikes for corn, milk, beans, and other commodities, but even before the pandemic, about 3 billion people could not afford even the cheapest options for a healthy diet.
Author Correction: Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030
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Correction to: Nature Food https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01109-4, published online 14 January 2025. In the version of the article originally published, in the seventh paragraph of the Results, we erroneously stated “in some cases, the causal relationship’s directionality was assessed to go both ways (104 of 2,500 total possible pairs), indicating possible feedback loops (Supplementary Fig. 22)”.
By Kate Schneider Verified, Roseline Remans, Tesfaye Hailu Bekele, Destan Aytekin, Piero Conforti, Shouro Dasgupta, Fabrice DeClerck, Deviana Dewi, Carola Fabi, Jessica A. Gephart, Yuta J. Masuda, Rebecca McLaren, Michaela Saisana, Nancy J. Aburto, Ramya Ambikapathi, Mariana Rodriguez, Simon Barquera, Jane Battersby, Ty Beal, Christophe Béné, Carlo Cafiero, Christine Campeau, Patrick Caron, Andrea Cattaneo, Jeroen Candel, Namukolo Covic, Ismahane Elouafi, Tyler J. Frazier, Alexander K. Fremier, Pat Foley, Christopher Golden, Carlos Fischer, Alejandro Guarin, Sheryl L Hendriks, Anna Herforth, Maddalena Honorati, Jikun Huang, Yonas Getaneh, Gina Kennedy, Amos Laar, Rattan Lal, Preetmoninder Lidder, Brent Loken, Hazel Malapit, Quinn Marshall, Kalkidan Mulatu, Ana Munguía, Stella Nordhagen, Danielle Resnick, Diana Suhardiman, U. Rashid Sumaila, Bangyao Sun, Belay Terefe Mengesha, Máximo Torero Cullen, Francesco N. Tubiello, Corné van Dooren, Isabel Morales, Jose-Luis Vivero-Pol, Patrick Webb, Keith Wiebe, Lawrence Haddad, Mario Herrero, José Rosero Moncayo, Jessica Fanzo
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Food systems performance evaluated against targets and benchmarks reveals urgent gaps and a path to 2050
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Abstract Despite national and international commitments to food systems transformation and an increasing adoption of common indicators, no comprehensive targets have been established against which progress can be measured.
By Bianca Carducci, Kate Schneider Lecy, Stella Nordhagen, Ty Beal, Christophe Béné, Carlos Fischer, Anna Herforth, Francesco N. Tubiello, Ramya Ambikapathi, Krishna Arunkumar, Christine Campeau, Shouro Dasgupta, Fabrice DeClerck, Alejandro Guarin, Rebecca McLaren, Jose Luis Vivero-Pol, Nancy J. Aburto, Simon Barquera, Jane Battersby, Carlo Cafiero, Piero Conforti, Patrick Caron, Andrea Cattaneo, Namukolo Covic, Ismahane Elouafi, Carola Fabi, Jessica A. Gephart, Alexander K. Fremier, Pat Foley, Christopher Golden, Sheryl L Hendriks, Jikun Huang, Gina Kennedy, Amos Laar, Rattan Lal, Preetmoninder Lidder, Brent Loken, Hazel Malapit, Quinn Marshall, Yuta J. Masuda, Roseline Remans, Danielle Resnick, Michaela Saisana, U. Rashid Sumaila, Máximo Torero Cullen, Patrick Webb, Keith Wiebe, Lawrence Haddad, José Rosero Moncayo, Jessica Fanzo, Mario Herrero
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Author Correction: Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030 - Nature Food
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Correction to: Nature Food https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01109-4, published online 14 January 2025. In the version of this article initially published, the affiliation shown for Isabel Valero Morales was incorrect. The affiliation should have appeared as “Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico.” The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.
By Kate Schneider Verified, Roseline Remans, Tesfaye Hailu Bekele, Shouro Dasgupta, Fabrice DeClerck, Deviana Dewi, Carola Fabi, Jessica A. Gephart, Yuta J. Masuda, Rebecca McLaren, Nancy J. Aburto, Ramya Ambikapathi, Mariana Rodriguez, Simon Barquera, Jane Battersby, Ty Beal, Christophe Béné, Carlo Cafiero, Patrick Caron, Andrea Cattaneo, Jeroen Candel, Namukolo Covic, Ismahane Elouafi, Tyler J. Frazier, Alexander K. Fremier, Pat Foley, Christopher Golden, Carlos Fischer, Alejandro Guarin, Sheryl L Hendriks, Anna Herforth, Maddalena Honorati, Jikun Huang, Yonas Getaneh, Gina Kennedy, Amos Laar, Rattan Lal, Preetmoninder Lidder, Brent Loken, Hazel Malapit, Quinn Marshall, Kalkidan Mulatu, Ana Munguía, Stella Nordhagen, Danielle Resnick, Diana Suhardiman, U. Rashid Sumaila, Bangyao Sun, Máximo Torero Cullen, Francesco N. Tubiello, Corné van Dooren, Isabel Morales, Jose-Luis Vivero-Pol, Patrick Webb, Keith Wiebe, Lawrence Haddad, Mario Herrero, José Rosero Moncayo, Jessica Fanzo, Destan Aytekin, Piero Conforti, Michaela Saisana, Christine Campeau, Belay Terefe Mengesha
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Environmental impacts and monetary costs of healthy diets worldwide - Nature Food
Abstract Using real-world food price and greenhouse gas emissions data for locally available food items in 171 countries, we measure how healthy diets could be obtained with the lowest possible emissions, compared with costs and emissions of the least expensive options and foods most commonly consumed. We find that foods with the lowest greenhouse gas emissions for a healthy diet would emit 0.67 kgCO2e.
Beyond calories: Benchmarking access to healthy diets for people, planet, and policy
At the core of the CoAHD is the Healthy Diet Basket, a global standard derived from representative national food-based dietary guidelines that constitute countries’ own official definitions of a nutritionally-adequate and culturally-relevant diet. The Healthy Diet Basket reflects the commonalities of national guidelines across countries in terms of the proportions needed of six food groups.
The Healthy Diet Basket is a valid global standard that highlights lack of access to healthy and sustainable diets - Nature Food
Abstract The Healthy Diet Basket (HDB) is a standard developed from food-based dietary guidelines (FBDG) for the measurement of the Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet—a new indicator of food security tracked by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Bank. Here we analysed the HDB’s economic, nutritional and environmental characteristics of least-cost diets relative to 16 national FBDG and the EAT-Lancet reference diet.
Measuring Food Access as Affordability of Least‐Cost Healthy Diets Worldwide
1 Defining and Measuring Global Food Security: From Energy Sufficiency to Foods for Health The concept and measurement of food security has evolved with changing policy priorities and availability of new data sources (Herforth 2015; Masters et al. 2022).
Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030 - Nature Food
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Abstract Due to complex interactions, changes in any one area of food systems are likely to impact—and possibly depend on—changes in other areas. Here we present the first annual monitoring update of the indicator framework proposed by the Food Systems Countdown Initiative, with new qualitative analysis elucidating interactions across indicators. Since 2000, we find that 20 of 42 indicators with time series have been trending in a desirable direction, indicating modest positive change.
By Kate Schneider Verified, Roseline Remans, Tesfaye Hailu Bekele, Shouro Dasgupta, Deviana Dewi, Jessica A. Gephart, Yuta J. Masuda, Rebecca McLaren, Mariana Rodriguez, Simon Barquera, Jane Battersby, Ty Beal, Christophe Béné, Carlo Cafiero, Patrick Caron, Andrea Cattaneo, Jeroen Candel, Namukolo Covic, Tyler J. Frazier, Christopher Golden, Carlos Fischer, Alejandro Guarin, Anna Herforth, Yonas Getaneh, Gina Kennedy, Amos Laar, Rattan Lal, Brent Loken, Hazel Malapit, Ana Munguía, Stella Nordhagen, Danielle Resnick, U. Rashid Sumaila, Bangyao Sun, Francesco N. Tubiello, Corné van Dooren, Jose-Luis Vivero-Pol, Patrick Webb, Keith Wiebe, Mario Herrero
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Author Correction: Periodic Table of Food Initiative for generating biomolecular knowledge of edible biodiversity - Nature Food
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Correction to: Nature Food https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-00941-y, published online 8 March 2024. In the version of the article initially published, the second affiliation of Lukas Pawera (World Vegetable Center, Shanhua, Tainan, Taiwan) was missing and has now been added in the HTML and PDF versions of the article. About this article Jarvis, A., Gallo-Franco, J., Portilla, J. et al.
By Jenny Gallo-Franco, Maya Rajasekharan, Colin K. Khoury, Anna Herforth, Elizabeth Arnaud, Christopher Golden, Corinna Dawid, Stef de Haan, Gayle Fritz, Robert Hall, Robbie Hart, Audrey Henry, Sanwen Huang, Danny Hunter, Bermet Imanbaeva, Gengjie Jia, Elizabeth Johnson, Salwa Karboune, Stefan Klade, Vincent Lal, Avraham A. Levy, Mari Maeda-Yamamoto, Coralia Osorio, Lukas Pawera, Warangkana Srichamnong, Tiziana Ulian, Tinde van Andel, Jianbin Yan
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The state of food systems worldwide in the countdown to 2030 - Nature Food
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Abstract This Analysis presents a recently developed food system indicator framework and holistic monitoring architecture to track food system transformation towards global development, health and sustainability goals. Five themes are considered: (1) diets, nutrition and health; (2) environment, natural resources and production; (3) livelihoods, poverty and equity; (4) governance; and (5) resilience.
By Kate Schneider Verified, Jessica Fanzo, Mario Herrero, Anna Herforth, Roseline Remans, Alejandro Guarin, Danielle Resnick, Namukolo Covic, Christophe Béné, Andrea Cattaneo, Simon Barquera, Ty Beal, Carlo Cafiero, Patrick Caron, Deviana Dewi, Tyler J. Frazier, Jessica A. Gephart, Christopher Golden, Carlos Fischer, Amos Laar, Rattan Lal, Brent Loken, Yuta J. Masuda, Lais Miachon, Hernan Munoz, Stella Nordhagen, U. Rashid Sumaila, Francesco N. Tubiello, Jose-Luis Vivero-Pol, Patrick Webb
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Global Diet Quality Project Measures What the World Eats
The following article is adapted from findings in the Global Diet Quality Project's newly released report, Measuring what the world eats: Insights from a new approach. Unhealthy diets are a top risk factor for death and disability globally, but despite the direct connections among diet quality, health and sustainable development, most countries lack routine, current and comparable data on what people eat.
Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability
Applying the diagnostics to national food systems Of the 195 countries assessed in the analysis, the average country coverage for indicators was 158 or 81% of countries (Table 1).
3 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet
3 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) William A. Masters, Tufts University and Anna Herforth, Tufts University (THE CONVERSATION) The COVID-19 pandemic has caused price spikes for corn, milk, beans and other commodities, but even before the pandemic about 3 billion people could not afford even the cheapest options for a healthy diet.
3 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet Original
CC BY-ND The COVID-19 pandemic has caused price spikes for corn, milk, beans and other commodities, but even before the pandemic about 3 billion people could not afford even the cheapest options for a healthy diet. Recent analysis of global food price data reveals that as of 2017, the latest available year, around 40% of the world’s population was already forced to consume poor-quality diets by a combination of high food prices and low incomes.
Differences in modelled estimates of global dietary intake
Two separate entities—the Robust global dietary data are essential for understanding the risk of undernutrition, obesity, and diet-related non-communicable diseases, which contribute substantially to the global burden of disease.Global Dietary Database (GDD) and the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 Diet Collaborators —have compiled global dietary and proxy data to model quantitative intakes for adults from nearly every country.
Global Diet Quality Project Aims to Bridge Data Gap
Diet -- the food people eat -- is a central component of wellbeing. It reflects the sum of what society provides and an individual's circumstances, which either support or hamper the consumption of nourishing food. This centrality of diet to wellbeing is reflected in health statistics: Poor diet and malnutrition are estimated to be the two top risk factors within the global burden of disease.[1] Yet most countries lack routine, current, comparable data on what people eat.
Household Dietary Patterns and the Cost of a Nutritious Diet in Myanmar
Household Dietary Patterns and the Cost of a Nutritious Diet in Myanmar Although Myanmar has made progress in reducing malnutrition, its prevalence among young children remains high, as 26.7 percent of children age 6-59 months are moderately or severely stunted (MoHS, 2019). Furthermore, nutrient inadequacy remains widespread.
Foods | Free Full-Text | Food Environment Typology: Advancing an Expanded Definition, Framework, and Methodological Approach for Improved Characterization of Wild, Cultivated, and Built Food Environments toward Sustainable Diets
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Americans Divided on Leaving Fat, Sugar, Salt Off the Plate
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans almost unanimously desire to include vegetables and fruits in their diet, but their opinions on whether to actively avoid more controversial nutritional elements such as salt, sugar and fat vary significantly based on age, education, and race and ethnicity.
Grocery Shopping Shortcuts Aren't Everyone's Bag
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Despite a profusion of online services that offer busy Americans an alternative to spending time in the grocery store, 84% of U.S. adults report they never order groceries online and 89% never order meal preparation kits. Americans are much more inclined to simplify mealtime by ordering takeout or by going out to eat. However, nearly all Americans still shop for groceries the old-fashioned way -- by going to a store.
Most Americans Try to Eat Locally Grown Foods
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Nearly three-quarters of Americans say they actively try to include locally grown foods in their diets, confirmation that the public is embracing farmers markets, community-supported agricultural programs and the "farm-to-table" movement that have all proliferated in the U.S. since the early 2000s.
Most Americans Overlook Restaurants' Nutrition Labels
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Despite recent federal Food and Drug Administration rules mandating that U.S. restaurants post nutritional information for menu items, Americans are no more likely to peruse this type of information now than they were five years ago. Today, less than half of Americans (45%) say they pay "a great deal" (16%) or "a fair amount" (29%) of attention to nutrition details at restaurants, similar to the 43% found in 2013.
Is Drinking Alcohol in Moderation Good For You?
Is having one or two drinks a day good for you? And if so, what is the optimal amount one should drink? Dr. Eric Rimm, professor of epidemiology and nutrition and director of the program in cardiovascular epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, joins the podcast to discuss the trend in Americans' views on moderate drinking and how these views square with scientific facts. Later, what percentage of Americans approve of the job the U.S. Supreme Court is doing?
Americans Open to Drug-Free Pain Treatment Over Opioids
The opioid epidemic -- which President Donald Trump recently declared a national emergency -- continues to destroy communities, families and lives at an alarming rate. Deaths from prescription opioid abuse have more than quadrupled since 1999, and more than four in 10 Americans say prescription painkillers are a "crisis" or "very serious problem" where they live. And new research suggests that the opioid abuse could be dragging down the economy by keeping Americans out of the workforce.
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