Measuring characteristics of wild and cultivated food environments: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Global food systems are essential to sustain life; however, unhealthy diets are the leading cause of poor health and death worldwide. Natural food environments are a critical source of healthful food such as fresh fruit and vegetables, lean meat and aquatic foods, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and Indigenous food systems. Understanding and monitoring natural food environments is critical to protecting the supply of healthy food, and the land and water it comes from, for current and future generations.

Methods

A scoping review was applied to classify and summarise empirical methods and measures used for characterising natural food environments. The ways in which food environment characteristics are conceptualised and measured for natural

SUBMITTER: Farrell P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11545722 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature