Tool for assessing food industry commitments and practices to address the double burden of malnutrition: a Delphi study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many low- and middle-income countries face a double burden of malnutrition, i.e., a co-occurrence of undernutrition with overweight, obesity, or other diet-related noncommunicable diseases. In an increasingly connected global food system, multinational and domestic food industry actors - through their commercial practices and corporate political activity - both contribute to the double burden of malnutrition and hold potential to address it. Systematic monitoring of relevant industry commitments and practices may help to hold industry accountable and foster constructive engagement. The Business Impact Assessment - Obesity and population-level nutrition (BIA-Obesity) tool has been developed to assess and benchmark food companies' commitments and practices related to obesi

SUBMITTER: Klinger C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12849613 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature