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Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability

To reorient food systems to ensure they deliver healthy diets that protect against multiple forms of malnutrition and diet-related disease and safeguard the environment, ecosystems, and natural resources, there is a need for better governance and accountability. However, decision-makers are often in...

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Autores principales: Herforth, Anna, Bellows, Alexandra L., Marshall, Quinn, McLaren, Rebecca, Beal, Ty, Nordhagen, Stella, Remans, Roseline, Estrada Carmona, Natalia, Fanzo, Jessica
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9337654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35905046
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270712
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author Herforth, Anna
Bellows, Alexandra L.
Marshall, Quinn
McLaren, Rebecca
Beal, Ty
Nordhagen, Stella
Remans, Roseline
Estrada Carmona, Natalia
Fanzo, Jessica
author_facet Herforth, Anna
Bellows, Alexandra L.
Marshall, Quinn
McLaren, Rebecca
Beal, Ty
Nordhagen, Stella
Remans, Roseline
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Fanzo, Jessica
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description To reorient food systems to ensure they deliver healthy diets that protect against multiple forms of malnutrition and diet-related disease and safeguard the environment, ecosystems, and natural resources, there is a need for better governance and accountability. However, decision-makers are often in the dark on how to navigate their food systems to achieve these multiple outcomes. Even where there is sufficient data to describe various elements, drivers, and outcomes of food systems, there is a lack of tools to assess how food systems are performing. This paper presents a diagnostic methodology for 39 indicators representing food supply, food environments, nutrition outcomes, and environmental outcomes that offer cutoffs to assess performance of national food systems. For each indicator, thresholds are presented for unlikely, potential, or likely challenge areas. This information can be used to generate actions and decisions on where and how to intervene in food systems to improve human and planetary health. A global assessment and two country case studies—Greece and Tanzania—illustrate how the diagnostics could spur decision options available to countries.
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spelling pubmed-93376542022-07-30 Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability Herforth, Anna Bellows, Alexandra L. Marshall, Quinn McLaren, Rebecca Beal, Ty Nordhagen, Stella Remans, Roseline Estrada Carmona, Natalia Fanzo, Jessica PLoS One Research Article To reorient food systems to ensure they deliver healthy diets that protect against multiple forms of malnutrition and diet-related disease and safeguard the environment, ecosystems, and natural resources, there is a need for better governance and accountability. However, decision-makers are often in the dark on how to navigate their food systems to achieve these multiple outcomes. Even where there is sufficient data to describe various elements, drivers, and outcomes of food systems, there is a lack of tools to assess how food systems are performing. This paper presents a diagnostic methodology for 39 indicators representing food supply, food environments, nutrition outcomes, and environmental outcomes that offer cutoffs to assess performance of national food systems. For each indicator, thresholds are presented for unlikely, potential, or likely challenge areas. This information can be used to generate actions and decisions on where and how to intervene in food systems to improve human and planetary health. A global assessment and two country case studies—Greece and Tanzania—illustrate how the diagnostics could spur decision options available to countries. Public Library of Science 2022-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9337654/ /pubmed/35905046 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270712 Text en © 2022 Herforth et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Fanzo, Jessica
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9337654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35905046
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270712
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