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Can the sustainable development goals reduce the burden of nutrition-related non-communicable diseases without truly addressing major food system reforms?

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Hawkes, Corinna, Popkin, Barry M.·2015·BMC Medicine

Abstract

While the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs; 2000-2015) focused primarily on poverty reduction, hunger and infectious diseases, the proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targets pay more attention to nutrition and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). One of the 169 proposed targets of the SDGs is to reduce premature deaths from NCDs by one third; another is to end malnutrition in all its forms. Nutrition-related NCDs (NR-NCDs) stand at the intersection between malnutrition and NCDs. Driven in large part by remarkable transformations of food systems, they are rapidly increasing in most low and middle income countries (LMICs). The transformation to modern food systems began in the period following World War II with policies designed to meet a very different set of nutritional and food needs, and continued with globalization in the 1990s onwards. Another type of food systems transformation will be needed to shift towards a healthier and more sustainable diet--as will meeting many of the other SDGs. The process will be complex but is necessary. Communities concerned with NCDs and with malnutrition need to work more closely together to demand food systems change.

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Authors
Hawkes, C., & Popkin, B. M.
Affiliations
  • City, University of London (GB)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
Corresponding author
Popkin, Barry M.
Venue
BMC Medicine
Published
2015-06-16
Volume
13
Issue
1
Pages
143-143
ISSN
1741-7015 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1882436958
Cited by
102
References
11
Citations by year
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FWCI
21.99
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • BMC Medicine (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • City Research Online (City University London) (acceptedVersion)
  • Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (submittedVersion)
  • UNC Libraries
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Nutrition, Health, and Society Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
Keywords
Sustainable Development Goals, nutrition-related non-communicable diseases, food system transformation, malnutrition, food system reform, healthy eating, low- and middle-income countries, Millennium Development Goals, nutrition policy
MeSH terms
Conservation of Natural Resources, Developing Countries, Diet, Goals, Humans, Income, Nutritional Status, Poverty, Cost of Illness, Malnutrition

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