Fruit and Vegetables for Sustainable Healthy Diets (FRESH)
Developing food environments that are conducive to health and nutrition
The food environment, where the consumer encounters the food they eat, plays a central role in nutrition. This research area focuses on how to develop or influence food environments to improve consumer access to and affordability of diverse and safe fruits and vegetables. Beginning with diagnostics of food environments in the focus countries, FRESH will then generate national evidence on a range of market and regulatory interventions and innovations co-designed to improve food environments that can be directly operationalized by stakeholders. FRESH is particularly focused on marginalized groups exposed to poor food environments and those at most risk for poor quality diets and all forms of malnutrition.
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