To enable a transition towards healthier diets, it is important to first understand what people eat. But almost any method of learning about consumption patterns relies on a survey respondent’s ability to remember what they and others in their family ate. Whether people overestimate or underestimate their food consumption, it can be equally problematic for researchers. A recent paper published
This week the Healthy Diets Monitoring Initiative will convene technical experts to provide inputs and recommendations into a multi-year, global effort to advance the assessment of healthy diets for global monitoring. Marie Ruel, Lead of the CGIAR Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT), will participate. Dietary intake indicators for global monitoring of people’s diets do not
Why does a food systems approach matter? Approximately 100 participants from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Viet Nam will be learning together to find the answer to that question and more through a recently launched e-course on Food Systems Governance, offered by the CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT). The online course is made up of
The new CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT) and three partners in Viet Nam recently formalized their commitment to strengthen stakeholder engagement in food systems transformation for sustainable and healthy diets in Viet Nam. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), on behalf of SHiFT, the Viet Nam Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VAAS), the
New Initiative builds on CGIAR’s collective strengths and brings together stakeholders to address key regional development challenges In the race to make food production and consumption more sustainable, South Asia is key. Home to one quarter of humanity — one-fifth of whom are youth — the region has the world’s largest concentration of poverty and malnutrition. While South Asia produces