Connecting the food and agriculture sector to nutrition interventions for improved health outcomes.

ABSTRACT: To achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of zero hunger, multi-sectoral strategies to improve nutrition are necessary. Building towards this goal, the food and agriculture sector must be considered when designing nutritional interventions. Nevertheless, most frameworks designed to guide nutritional interventions do not adequately capture opportunities for integrating nutrition interventions within the food and agriculture sector. This paper aims to highlight how deeply connected the food and agriculture sector is to underlying causes of malnutrition and identify opportunities to better integrate the food and agriculture sector and nutrition in low and middle income countries. In particular, this paper: (1) expands on the UNICEF conceptual framework for undernutrition to integrate the fo

SUBMITTER: Duncan E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8804081 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature