Can nutrition be promoted through agriculture-led food price policies? A systematic review.

ABSTRACT: To systematically review the available evidence on whether national or international agricultural policies that directly affect the price of food influence the prevalence rates of undernutrition or nutrition-related chronic disease in children and adults. Systematic review. Global. We systematically searched five databases for published literature (MEDLINE, EconLit, Agricola, AgEcon Search, Scopus) and systematically browsed other databases and relevant organisational websites for unpublished literature. Reference lists of included publications were hand-searched for additional relevant studies. We included studies that evaluated or simulated the effects of national or international food-price-related agricultural policies on nutrition outcomes reporting data collected after 1990 and publi

SUBMITTER: Dangour AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3696869 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature