Economic development and nutrition transition in Ghana: Taking stock of food consumption patterns and trends

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.donorBill & Melinda Gates Foundationen
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.coverage.countryGhana
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2GH
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.creator.identifierOlivier Ecker: 0000-0001-7549-2511
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2499/9780896295933_04en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - West and Central Africa Office
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS)
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - East and Central Asia Office
cg.identifier.publicationRankA
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorEcker, Olivieren
dc.contributor.authorFang, Peixunen
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-21T09:22:58Zen
dc.date.available2024-06-21T09:22:58Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/147505
dc.titleEconomic development and nutrition transition in Ghana: Taking stock of food consumption patterns and trendsen
dcterms.abstractAlong with high economic growth over a period of somewhat more than the past three decades, poverty, household food insecurity, and undernutrition have substantially declined in Ghana. Ghana was one of the first African countries that achieved the first MDG, that of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger. Recently, Ghana achieved (lower-) middle-income-country status. Economic growth has been accompanied by a structural transformation of the economy and progressing urbanization. Household income growth improves people’s ability to afford nutritious foods and diversified diets, and allows them to utilize superior healthcare and higher education, contributing to healthier and more productive lives for themselves and their children. However, improvements in people’s living standards and changes in their livelihood activities and lifestyle usually also lead to a nutrition transition and give rise to new nutritional challenges, including increasing prevalence of overweight/obesity and related NCDs. To successfully address these new nutritional challenges, governments may need to launch new health and nutrition programs and revisit established food policies that have become inefficient in reducing food insecurity and malnutrition or even detrimental under the new circumstances.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationEcker, Olivier and Fang, Peixun. 2016. Economic development and nutrition transition in Ghana: Taking stock of food consumption patterns and trends. In Achieving a nutrition revolution for Africa: The road to healthier diets and optimal nutrition. Covic, Namukolo and Hendriks, Sheryl L. (Eds.). Chapter 4. Pp. 28-50. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896295933_04.en
dcterms.descriptionWe would also like to acknowledge the organizations that provided financial support for the 2015 ATOR: the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.en
dcterms.extent23 pagesen
dcterms.issued2016-10-17
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/9780896295933en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/130760en
dcterms.subjectincomeen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectbiofortificationen
dcterms.subjectmycotoxinsen
dcterms.subjecteconomic growthen
dcterms.subjectundernutritionen
dcterms.subjecteconomic developmenten
dcterms.subjectnutrition policiesen
dcterms.subjectagricultural growthen
dcterms.subjectagricultural policiesen
dcterms.subjectindicatorsen
dcterms.subjectcapacity developmenten
dcterms.subjectevaluationen
dcterms.subjectmalnutritionen
dcterms.subjectnutritionen
dcterms.subjectaflatoxinsen
dcterms.subjectchildrenen
dcterms.subjectagricultural developmenten
dcterms.subjectfood consumptionen
dcterms.subjectpovertyen
dcterms.subjectdieten
dcterms.subjectwomenen
dcterms.typeBook Chapter

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