Nutrition, agriculture and the global food system in low and middle income countries
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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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This process is accelerating across all LMIC markets.
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58% of calories consumed by Mexicans come from packaged foods and beverages, which is similar throughout the Americas and even with the US (66%).
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The proportion for China is 28.5% and rising rapidly.
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- Authors
- Popkin, B. M.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Corresponding author
- Popkin, Barry M.
- ORCID
- Popkin, Barry M.
- Venue
- Food Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-08
- Volume
- 47
- Pages
- 91-96
- ISSN
- 0306-9192 (ISSN-L)
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- PMC4053196
- OpenAlex
- W2093776283
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- 48.39
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- Food Policy (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
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- UNC Libraries
- Funders
- NIH (R01-HD30880, DK056350, R01-HD38700)
- Carolina Population Center (R24 HD050924)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Agricultural and Food Production Studies
- Keywords
- nutrition, agriculture, global food system, low- and middle-income countries, food value chains, dietary change, beverages, food insecurity, retail sector growth, urban-rural differences, health implications
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