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Food Systems’ Transformation to Address Malnutrition in Selected Countries—Panel-Data Analysis on Undernourishment and Obesity

Global awareness of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has heightened the importance and role of food systems’ transformation in accelerating countries’ progress to achieve such goals in a timely manner. The agricultural and food systems’ transformation goal is to build resilience to vuln...

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Autores principales: Fathelrahman, Eihab, Muhammad, Safdar, Abdalla, Afra, Ali, Habiba I., Al Dhaheri, Ayesha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9104935/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35564046
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods11091323
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author Fathelrahman, Eihab
Muhammad, Safdar
Abdalla, Afra
Ali, Habiba I.
Al Dhaheri, Ayesha
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Muhammad, Safdar
Abdalla, Afra
Ali, Habiba I.
Al Dhaheri, Ayesha
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description Global awareness of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has heightened the importance and role of food systems’ transformation in accelerating countries’ progress to achieve such goals in a timely manner. The agricultural and food systems’ transformation goal is to build resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks, and diseases such as undernourishment and obesity. The objective of this study is to specify the agricultural and food systems’ factors that contribute to reducing the impacts of undernourishment and obesity in selected populous and high-income countries. This study used panel data from 2000 to 2020, applying fixed and random-effect econometrics models to conduct the analyses. Results indicated that the per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP), level of urbanization, and flood losses at food retail from a food systems perspective were the most influential factors in the prevalence of undernourishment. Meanwhile, the supply of fatty food was the significant nutrition variable affecting undernourishment. The cereal import dependency, per capita GDP, percentage of food imports from the value of food export, and value of domestic food production factors were the influential food system variables affecting the prevalence of obesity. Cereal import dependency and dietary energy supply are the significant factors affecting the prevalence of obesity. This study recommended a set of policy actions to address malnutrition, including sustainable and balanced food and nutrition systems’ transformation, food trade openness, and efforts to reduce adversary impacts of urbanization.
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spelling pubmed-91049352022-05-14 Food Systems’ Transformation to Address Malnutrition in Selected Countries—Panel-Data Analysis on Undernourishment and Obesity Fathelrahman, Eihab Muhammad, Safdar Abdalla, Afra Ali, Habiba I. Al Dhaheri, Ayesha Foods Article Global awareness of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has heightened the importance and role of food systems’ transformation in accelerating countries’ progress to achieve such goals in a timely manner. The agricultural and food systems’ transformation goal is to build resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks, and diseases such as undernourishment and obesity. The objective of this study is to specify the agricultural and food systems’ factors that contribute to reducing the impacts of undernourishment and obesity in selected populous and high-income countries. This study used panel data from 2000 to 2020, applying fixed and random-effect econometrics models to conduct the analyses. Results indicated that the per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP), level of urbanization, and flood losses at food retail from a food systems perspective were the most influential factors in the prevalence of undernourishment. Meanwhile, the supply of fatty food was the significant nutrition variable affecting undernourishment. The cereal import dependency, per capita GDP, percentage of food imports from the value of food export, and value of domestic food production factors were the influential food system variables affecting the prevalence of obesity. Cereal import dependency and dietary energy supply are the significant factors affecting the prevalence of obesity. This study recommended a set of policy actions to address malnutrition, including sustainable and balanced food and nutrition systems’ transformation, food trade openness, and efforts to reduce adversary impacts of urbanization. MDPI 2022-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9104935/ /pubmed/35564046 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods11091323 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Food Systems’ Transformation to Address Malnutrition in Selected Countries—Panel-Data Analysis on Undernourishment and Obesity
title Food Systems’ Transformation to Address Malnutrition in Selected Countries—Panel-Data Analysis on Undernourishment and Obesity
title_full Food Systems’ Transformation to Address Malnutrition in Selected Countries—Panel-Data Analysis on Undernourishment and Obesity
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title_full_unstemmed Food Systems’ Transformation to Address Malnutrition in Selected Countries—Panel-Data Analysis on Undernourishment and Obesity
title_short Food Systems’ Transformation to Address Malnutrition in Selected Countries—Panel-Data Analysis on Undernourishment and Obesity
title_sort food systems’ transformation to address malnutrition in selected countries—panel-data analysis on undernourishment and obesity
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35564046
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods11091323
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