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{"title":"Measuring food access using least-cost diets: Results for global monitoring and targeting of interventions to improve food security, nutrition and health","authors":"Jessica K. Wallingford ,&nbsp;Saskia de Pee ,&nbsp;Anna W. Herforth ,&nbsp;Sabrina Kuri ,&nbsp;Yan Bai ,&nbsp;William A. Masters","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100771","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Benchmark diets using the most affordable locally available items to meet health and nutrition needs have long been used to guide food choice and nutrition assistance. This paper describes the result of recent innovations scaling up the use of such least-cost diets by UN agencies, the World Bank, and national governments for a different purpose, which is monitoring food environments and targeting systemic interventions to improve a population's access to sufficient food for an active and healthy life. Measuring food access using least-cost diets allows a clearer understanding of where poor diets are caused by unavailability or high prices for even the lowest-cost healthy foods, insufficient income or other resources to acquire those foods, or the use of other foods instead due to reasons such as time use and meal preparation costs, or cultural factors such as taste and aspirations. This paper reviews the data, methods and results that have led to official FAO and the World Bank adoption of cost and affordability metrics for global monitoring, and the parallel use of similar methods to guide interventions in country studies led by the World Food Programme with partner agencies across Africa, Asia and Latin America. We conclude by summarizing how increasing availability of food price data, matched to food composition and dietary requirements, allows analysts to use recently developed software tools for least-cost diet assessment to improve food access in a wide range of settings.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100771"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000336/pdfft?md5=7d49923df252ba93d1e8db80b0f2bbbc&pid=1-s2.0-S2211912424000336-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141250891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Key findings and lessons from USDA-ERS-Yeutter-Institute Food Security Modeling Research Symposium","authors":"Yacob A. Zereyesus ,&nbsp;John C. Beghin","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100768","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100768"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141244423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Meta-review of child and adolescent experiences and consequences of food insecurity","authors":"Edward A. Frongillo,&nbsp;Victoria O. Adebiyi,&nbsp;Morgan Boncyk","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100767","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We conducted a meta-review of consequences associated with food insecurity for children and adolescents, how these consequences occur, and what evidence is available that associations between food insecurity and child outcomes are causal. A systematic search in five databases identified 55 studies on child and adolescent food insecurity and potential consequences. Extensive literature accumulated over nearly 30 years has identified profound consequences for growth, diet, health, and psychological development for children and adolescents who experience food insecurity. Many of these consequences, particularly for academic performance, behavior and psychological development, and mental health, will affect the readiness of children and adolescents for adulthood and occur regardless of setting.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100767"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000294/pdfft?md5=bc0c0cfe1fb57566d7dab34659143e15&pid=1-s2.0-S2211912424000294-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141096016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The affordability gap for nutritious diets – How big is it and how to close it?","authors":"Mysbah Balagamwala ,&nbsp;Sabrina Kuri ,&nbsp;Juan Gonzalo Jaramillo Mejia ,&nbsp;Saskia de Pee","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100757","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The high proportion of people unable to afford nutrient-adequate diets has been recognised as a global challenge. For policies and programmes that aim to improve food security and nutrition, it is essential to know the magnitude of the gap between food expenditure and the lowest cost of meeting nutrient needs, i.e., the affordability gap. Using data and examples from Fill the Nutrient Gap analyses in Dominican Republic, Ethiopia and Indonesia, the paper shows how the affordability gap can be used to inform the design of social assistance programmes to have a bigger contribution towards making nutrient-adequate diets more affordable. The affordability gap indicator can help assess adequacy of the transfer value and inform the design of the benefits package to become more comprehensive through linkages with nutrition interventions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100757"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000191/pdfft?md5=03a4f03d1900ec7c7756c320f48cb922&pid=1-s2.0-S2211912424000191-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141096015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does dairy intensification threaten livelihood diversity in East Africa?","authors":"E. Kihoro ,&nbsp;V. Vernooij ,&nbsp;G. Schoneveld ,&nbsp;T. Crane ,&nbsp;S. Vellema","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100770","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Intensifying smallholder dairy farming can reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and increase food production on existing croplands. Much public policy therefore assumes that dairy intensification reduces emissions per unit of production, while simultaneously improving both rural incomes and food security. Whether the hypothesized social co-benefits of intensification manifest in practice has not however been fully empirically validated. Because intensification is labor and capital intensive, resource diversions may occur that could make rural livelihoods more specialized. This in turn could threaten dietary diversity and smallholder resilience to shocks. In this article, we accordingly examine the relationship between dairy intensification, livelihood diversity, nutrition diversity, and wellbeing, drawing on primary research conducted in two developing countries, Kenya and Tanzania, with vibrant smallholder dairy sectors. We find that dairy intensification by and large enhances livelihood diversity, nutritional diversity, and wealth. These findings suggest that for dairy, intensification and diversification may be complementary livelihood strategies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100770"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000324/pdfft?md5=4ca120cb45cf3de0d73d11b639c7e86e&pid=1-s2.0-S2211912424000324-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141091023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Fill the nutrient gap” diet modelling and situation analysis contributes to multisectoral policy and programme decision-making*","authors":"Frances Knight ,&nbsp;Jane Badham ,&nbsp;Helen Walls ,&nbsp;Nora Hobbs ,&nbsp;Saskia de Pee","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100756","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examined how The World Food Programme’s Fill the Nutrient Gap (FNG) situation analysis has facilitated decision-making to support nutrition. Semi-structured interviews were held with 60 ‘broker’, ‘technical analyst’ and ‘consumer’ end users of the FNG in 11 countries. Almost all FNG cases, especially those conducted in 'development' contexts, had objectives of informing government decision-making, with some, especially in 'fragile' settings, also focused on informing WFP’s own programming. The FNG was credited with contributing evidence to national or sub-national nutrition strategy development, informing advocacy and building momentum and improving understanding around key nutrition issues. Internally, the FNG helped promote WFP’s nutrition-sensitive programming approaches. This article discusses these findings and explores how the FNG’s policy contribution could be strengthened in future applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100756"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141068316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Global food security estimation: Refining the IFSA caloric threshold using population estimates and projections by age and sex","authors":"Lila Cardell ,&nbsp;Yacob Abrehe Zereyesus ,&nbsp;Constanza Valdes","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100760","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100760"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000221/pdfft?md5=32707828d6e8ff9dd1cd23721c655e29&pid=1-s2.0-S2211912424000221-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140909825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding adolescents’ lived experience of food poverty. A multi-method study among food aid recipient families in Italy.","authors":"Monica Palladino ,&nbsp;Carlo Cafiero ,&nbsp;Roberto Sensi","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100762","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article relies on the findings of a report titled <em>Cresciuti troppo in fretta</em> (“Grown too fast”), published by ActionAid Italy (ActionAid 2022), which examined food poverty among adolescents in two areas of Italy. Guided by a conceptual framework that emerged from the results of a qualitative study conducted by interviewing 32 adults and their children (34 adolescents aged 11–16 years), belonging to families that benefit from food distribution services offered by charities in the cities of Milan and Siena, Italy, in 2022, the analysis focuses on the nutritional, social, and especially psychological and emotional consequences of food poverty on adolescents. Complementary data on reported food habits provide additional insights, especially on the more quantitative aspects of food consumption, and was used to better frame a comprehensive analysis of food poverty. The objective is to derive considerations useful for designing and implementing actions intended to specifically address the consequences of food poverty among youth. The fieldwork provided an invaluable opportunity to interact with adolescents experiencing food poverty, to better understand the subtle implications of food poverty for them. The rich set of data emerging from the interviews with the adolescents' and their parents reveals how important is the emotional sphere in their life and how it can be negatively impacted by food poverty, especially because it conditions the children's social life and relations, both with parents and their peers. One implication of this is that narrow interpretations of food security, mainly focusing on adequate food access and utilization, may not provide the correct perspective to look at the problem of food poverty for adolescents. As a further contribution, the study proposes a short questionnaire that focuses on these emotional and relational experiences by children, as related to food poverty. It aims at capturing the intensity of the emotional and psychological distress on adolescents caused by living in families that experience a condition of limited capacity to access food. When further developed and tested, the questionnaire could then serve as a contribution towards more comprehensive survey-based assessments of the consequences of food poverty among adolescents, in Italy and elsewhere. Overall, the study has increased our understanding of what experiencing food poverty means for the adolescents and their families in Italy and puts forward proposals that could be useful to guide more effective responses to the problem of adolescents' food poverty.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100762"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140902511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards gender equality in forestry, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture","authors":"Marlène Elias ,&nbsp;Haley Zaremba ,&nbsp;Katie Tavenner ,&nbsp;Catherine Ragasa ,&nbsp;Ana Maria Paez Valencia ,&nbsp;Afrina Choudhury ,&nbsp;Nicoline de Haan","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100761","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The forestry, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture sectors are critical for sustaining rural livelihoods and achieving food and nutrition security around the world. Yet, these sectors are marred by significant gender and social inequalities. This review examines gender gaps in these sectors and what has worked to reduce inequalities. We show that gender norms underpin the invisibility, undervaluation, and weight of women's labor; rural women's typically limited and precarious control over resources; gender-unequal influence over decision-making and agency; and gender-blind and discriminatory policies, data systems, and governance in these sectors. We evidence the diverse and multipronged strategies that have been used to lift these barriers, from the individual-to the system-level and spanning informal to formal institutions, to promote gender equality.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100761"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000233/pdfft?md5=ddf19cd29efd772af3f90c3950e48b0e&pid=1-s2.0-S2211912424000233-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140646868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Harnessing digital innovations for climate action and market access: Opportunities and constraints in the CWANA region","authors":"Martin Paul Jr. Tabe-Ojong ,&nbsp;Yousra Salama ,&nbsp;Kibrom A. Abay ,&nbsp;Fatma Abdelaziz ,&nbsp;Claudia Zaccari ,&nbsp;Akmal Akramkhanov ,&nbsp;Gianpiero Menza ,&nbsp;Oyture Anarbekov","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100763","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is growing optimism about the potential of digital innovations to support climate action and transform agricultural markets. We review and characterize the landscape of digital innovations in the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region. We highlight major success stories associated with the potential of digital innovations to facilitate rural market transformation and support climate action, including adaptation and mitigation. Our desk and landscape review identifies various digital innovations used in Egypt, Morocco, and Uzbekistan. We then create a typology of digital innovations based on seven broad service categorizations: weather and climate; agricultural finance; energy and early warning systems; data and crowdsourcing; market information and market place; extension and advisory information; and supply chain coordination. Three technical and validation workshops supplement this review. Our review shows that digital innovations have the potential to build resilience to climate change and increase market access, but their adoption remains low and varying across contexts. Significant heterogeneity and differences exist across these countries, possibly due to different institutional and regulatory frameworks that guide demand and capacity. We identify several supply and demand-side constraints facing the digital ecosystem in the region. There is the existence of a significant digital divide fueled by gender, literacy gaps, and related socioeconomic and psychosocial constraints. A seeming disconnect also exists between pilots and scale-ups, as most existing digital applications are unsuccessful in expanding beyond the pilot phase.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100763"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000257/pdfft?md5=91ed73929ff0e86a08f9e73111090ddb&pid=1-s2.0-S2211912424000257-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140650098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}