Nutrition, Agriculture and the Global Food System in Low and Middle Income Countries

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Popkin, Barry M. (2014). Nutrition, Agriculture and the Global Food System in Low and Middle Income Countries. Food Policy, 47, 91-96. PMCID: PMC4053196

Abstract

The entire food value chain and diet of low and middle income countries (LMICs) are rapidly shifting. Many of the issues addressed by the nutrition community ignore some of the major underlying shifts in purchases of consumer packaged foods and beverages. At the same time, the drivers of the food system at the farm level might be changing. There is a need for the agriculture and nutrition communities to understand these changes and focus on some of their implications for health. This rapid growth of the retail sector will change the diets of the food insecure as much as that of the food secure across rural and urban LMIC’s. This short commentary contents that current research, programs and policies are ignoring these rapid dynamic shifts.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2014.05.001

Reference Type

Journal Article

Year Published

2014

Journal Title

Food Policy

Author(s)

Popkin, Barry M.

PMCID

PMC4053196

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Popkin - 0000-0001-9495-9324