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

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Title Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability
 
Creator Herforth, Anna
Bellows, Alexandra L.
Marshall, Quinn
McLaren, Rebecca
Beal, Ty
Nordhagen, Stella
Remans, Roseline
Estrada-Carmona, Natalia
Fanzo, Jessica
 
Subject food systems
healthy diets
sustainable agriculture
diagnostic techniques
methodology
decision support systems
sistemas alimentarios
dieta saludable
agricultura sostenible
 
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.
 
Date 2022-07-29
2022-08-04T14:07:42Z
2022-08-04T14:07:42Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Herforth, A.; Bellows, A.L.; Marshall, Q.; McLaren, R.; Beal, T.; Nordhagen, S.; Remans, R.; Estrada Carmona, N.; Fanzo, J. (2022) Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability. PLoS ONE 17(7): e0270712. 21 p. ISSN: 1932-6203
1932-6203
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/120452
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270712
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 21 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
 
Source PLoS ONE