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Shaping Food Environments in Transitioning Economies for sustainable and healthy diets (FETE)
Project
Project code: 2820FENV13
Contract period: 01.01.2023
- 31.12.2025
Budget: 1,389,700 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: malnutrition, digital world, knowledge transfer, networking, human nutrition, policy, nutrition education, obesity, food pattern, nutritional information/recommendation, food environment
The ‘triple burden’ of malnutrition (undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies and overnutrition) is now prevalent in many countries irrespective of wealth. Diets and dietary habits and the food value chains, which have globally become increasingly uniform and unhealthy, contribute significantly to the non-communicable disease (NCD) burden. Nutrition transition towards an increase in meat consumption, sugar and high caloric fatty and refined starch-based foods in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is increasing at alarming rates. This contributes to the occurrence of NCDs, linked to diets and dietary habits, a situation that must be addressed. The proposed multidisciplinary project aims to establish a shared understanding of problems and opportunities and to develop solutions to shape food environments in transitioning economies to drive nutritious food consumption for better health outcomes, targeting South-East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The project will utilise a variety of approaches to study dietary habits, consumer and food supply trends and policies to develop evidence-based policy recommendations to transform food environments, targeting poor urban communities in all partner countries. The proposed project will provide a reference model for how the approaches established and results obtained can be applied more widely in the global South.
Section overview
Subjects
- Physiology of Nutrition
- Communication Sciences
- Nutritional behaviour
