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Public Health Nutrition and Global Food Policy

Public Health Nutrition and Global Food Policy

An examination of food systems, malnutrition, and the policies shaping nutrition worldwide, from famine and food security to the politics of diet-related disease.

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  1. Measuring Malnutrition Worldwide. Hunger and malnutrition are tracked through indices, deficiency types, and a growing double burden of obesity.
  2. Famine, Food Security, and the Green Revolution. Famine, food security, and the Green Revolution reshaped how hunger's causes and solutions are understood.
  3. Food Aid and Nutrition-Specific Interventions. Food aid, the WFP, school meals, breastfeeding, and fortification target malnutrition directly.
  4. The Nutrition Transition and Diet-Related Policy. Economic development reshapes diets, prompting policies on sugar taxes, labeling, and subsidies.
  5. Food Access and Sovereignty. Unequal food access and food sovereignty movements challenge how food systems are governed.
  6. Climate, Sustainability, and Food Systems. Climate change, water scarcity, and livestock all shape the sustainability of global food systems.
  7. Rights-Based Frameworks and Global Goals. Rights-based frameworks and global goals like SDG2 aim to guide coordinated action on malnutrition.
  8. Crisis and the Future of Food Policy. COVID-19 and conflict have deepened hunger, testing the future direction of global food policy.

This is the starting point of Public Health Nutrition and Global Food Policy: you don't need any prior knowledge of this subject to begin.

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1Measuring Malnutrition Worldwide
2Food Aid and Nutrition-Specific Interventions
3Food Access and Sovereignty
4Climate, Sustainability, and Food Systems
5Crisis and the Future of Food Policy

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Further reading

Bibliography and cited sources used to create this module.

  • Sen, A. (1981). Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO. (2023). The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023. Rome: FAO.
  • Willett, W. et al. (2019). "Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems." The Lancet, 393(10170), 447-492.
  • Popkin, B. M. (1993). "Nutritional Patterns and Transitions." Population and Development Review, 19(1), 138-157.
  • UNICEF, WHO, World Bank Group. (2023). Levels and Trends in Child Malnutrition: Joint Malnutrition Estimates. New York/Geneva/Washington DC.
  • Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe. Global Hunger Index (annual report). https://www.globalhungerindex.org