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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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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 Estrada Carmona, Natalia 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. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Herforth, Anna Bellows, Alexandra L. Marshall, Quinn McLaren, Rebecca Beal, Ty Nordhagen, Stella Remans, Roseline Estrada Carmona, Natalia Fanzo, Jessica Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability |
title | Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability |
title_full | Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability |
title_fullStr | Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability |
title_full_unstemmed | Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability |
title_short | Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability |
title_sort | diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability |
topic | Research Article |
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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