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Nutrition Transition and Climate Risks in Nigeria: Moving Towards Food Systems Policy Coherence
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The purpose of this review is to describe the combined impacts of the nutrition transition and climate change in Nigeria and analyze the country’s national food-related policy options that could support human and planetary health outcomes. RECENT FINDINGS: This paper uses a food s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7749090/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33006089 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40572-020-00292-3 |
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description | PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The purpose of this review is to describe the combined impacts of the nutrition transition and climate change in Nigeria and analyze the country’s national food-related policy options that could support human and planetary health outcomes. RECENT FINDINGS: This paper uses a food systems framework to analyze how the nutrition transition and climate change interact in Nigeria affecting both diets and the double burden of malnutrition, resulting in what has been termed the syndemic. Interactions between climate change and the nutrition transition in Nigeria are exacerbating diet-related inequities and will continue to do so if food systems continue on their current trajectory and without significant transformation. Siloed policy actions that attempt to mitigate one aspect of food system risk can create a negative feedback loop in another aspect of the food system. Our analysis finds that Nigeria has five national policies that include actionable steps to address food system insufficiencies; however, each of these policies is constrained by the boundaries of singular nutrition, climate change, and agricultural objectives. The country should consider a coherent policy environment that explicitly identifies and links underlying systemic and institutional drivers between climate change and malnutrition that simultaneously and comprehensively address both human and planetary health outcomes of food systems. SUMMARY: The systemic and institutional outcomes of this emerging syndemic—undernutrition, obesity, and climate change—are inexorably linked. Nigeria lacks a coherent policy environment taking on this challenging syndemic landscape. The analysis in this paper highlights the need for Nigeria to prioritize their national nutrition and agricultural and climate policies that uncouple feedback loops within food systems to address climate change and malnutrition in all its forms. |
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spelling | pubmed-77490902020-12-21 Nutrition Transition and Climate Risks in Nigeria: Moving Towards Food Systems Policy Coherence Morgan, Alexandra E. Fanzo, Jessica Curr Environ Health Rep Climate Change and Health (C Golden, Section Editor) PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The purpose of this review is to describe the combined impacts of the nutrition transition and climate change in Nigeria and analyze the country’s national food-related policy options that could support human and planetary health outcomes. RECENT FINDINGS: This paper uses a food systems framework to analyze how the nutrition transition and climate change interact in Nigeria affecting both diets and the double burden of malnutrition, resulting in what has been termed the syndemic. Interactions between climate change and the nutrition transition in Nigeria are exacerbating diet-related inequities and will continue to do so if food systems continue on their current trajectory and without significant transformation. Siloed policy actions that attempt to mitigate one aspect of food system risk can create a negative feedback loop in another aspect of the food system. Our analysis finds that Nigeria has five national policies that include actionable steps to address food system insufficiencies; however, each of these policies is constrained by the boundaries of singular nutrition, climate change, and agricultural objectives. The country should consider a coherent policy environment that explicitly identifies and links underlying systemic and institutional drivers between climate change and malnutrition that simultaneously and comprehensively address both human and planetary health outcomes of food systems. SUMMARY: The systemic and institutional outcomes of this emerging syndemic—undernutrition, obesity, and climate change—are inexorably linked. Nigeria lacks a coherent policy environment taking on this challenging syndemic landscape. The analysis in this paper highlights the need for Nigeria to prioritize their national nutrition and agricultural and climate policies that uncouple feedback loops within food systems to address climate change and malnutrition in all its forms. Springer International Publishing 2020-10-01 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7749090/ /pubmed/33006089 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40572-020-00292-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Climate Change and Health (C Golden, Section Editor) Morgan, Alexandra E. Fanzo, Jessica Nutrition Transition and Climate Risks in Nigeria: Moving Towards Food Systems Policy Coherence |
title | Nutrition Transition and Climate Risks in Nigeria: Moving Towards Food Systems Policy Coherence |
title_full | Nutrition Transition and Climate Risks in Nigeria: Moving Towards Food Systems Policy Coherence |
title_fullStr | Nutrition Transition and Climate Risks in Nigeria: Moving Towards Food Systems Policy Coherence |
title_full_unstemmed | Nutrition Transition and Climate Risks in Nigeria: Moving Towards Food Systems Policy Coherence |
title_short | Nutrition Transition and Climate Risks in Nigeria: Moving Towards Food Systems Policy Coherence |
title_sort | nutrition transition and climate risks in nigeria: moving towards food systems policy coherence |
topic | Climate Change and Health (C Golden, Section Editor) |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7749090/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33006089 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40572-020-00292-3 |
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