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Urban food systems and diets, nutrition, and health of the poor: Challenges, opportunities, and research gaps

In: Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South

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  • Marie T. Ruel
  • Jef L. Leroy
  • Olivier Ecker
  • Manuel Hernandez
  • Danielle Resnick
  • James Thurlow

Abstract

Rapid urbanization, population growth, migration, globalization, climate change, and income growth are creating unprecedented challenges for food systems in the global south. Urban centres face stubborn problems of undernutrition, which now co-exist with rapidly rising obesity and non-communicable diseases. Unhealthy diets are at the root of all forms of malnutrition. In urban areas, diets are changing rapidly as a result of changing lifestyle, work, and income factors that affect food choices and supply factors such as the modernization of food environments and food systems. This chapter lays out a conceptual framework of the different drivers of urban diets and uses it to review evidence on their actual contribution to the diets, nutrition and health of the urban poor. The chapter concludes with a set of key research priorities for informing future action on transforming urban food systems towards healthier diets, nutrition, and health for the urban poor.

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  • Marie T. Ruel & Jef L. Leroy & Olivier Ecker & Manuel Hernandez & Danielle Resnick & James Thurlow, 2020. "Urban food systems and diets, nutrition, and health of the poor: Challenges, opportunities, and research gaps," Chapters, in: Jonathan Crush & Bruce Frayne & Gareth Haysom (ed.), Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South, chapter 19, pages 380-396, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:17352_19
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    1. Pauw, Karl & Ecker, Olivier & Thurlow, James & Comstock, Andrew R., 2021. "Costing healthy diets and measuring deprivation: New indicators and modeling approaches," IFPRI discussion papers 2073, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

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