What can food policy do to redirect the diet transition?

cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Archiveen_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen_US
dc.contributor.authorHaddad, Lawrence Jamesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-29T12:59:52Zen_US
dc.date.available2025-01-29T12:59:52Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/172361en_US
dc.titleWhat can food policy do to redirect the diet transition?en_US
dcterms.abstractThe dietary transition in the developing world is accelerating toward an increased burden of chronic disease. It is increasing human mortality and disease burdens, and it is lowering economic productivity. The dietary transition is driven by changing preferences fueled by growing incomes, changing relative prices, urbanization, and food technology and distribution systems. This paper identifies policy options from the food supply and demand sides that can influence the transition toward increasingly healthy outcomes. These options have had mixed success in industrialized countries, and the policy tradeoffs in the developing world will be even more complicated. Additional technical research is needed to assess competing risks and help develop policy options. There is also a need for research to engage different actors in the policymaking process. In a debate in which much is at stake, there is a potentially powerful role for researchers to bring these actors to the table. In the end, this may help improve the decisionmaking processes underlying food policies that aim to redirect the diet transition toward healthier outcomes.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationHaddad, Lawrence James. 2005. What can food policy do to redirect the diet transition? Food and Nutrition Bulletin 26(2) 2995: 238-240en_US
dcterms.issued2005en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/1562en_US
dcterms.subjectdieten_US
dcterms.subjectdeveloping countriesen_US
dcterms.subjectchronic courseen_US
dcterms.subjectmortalityen_US
dcterms.subjectmorbidityen_US
dcterms.subjectincomeen_US
dcterms.subjectpricesen_US
dcterms.subjecturbanizationen_US
dcterms.subjectfoodsen_US
dcterms.subjecttechnologyen_US
dcterms.subjectfood supplyen_US
dcterms.subjectdecision makingen_US
dcterms.subjectnutritionen_US
dcterms.typeBriefen_US

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