foods at home has decreased, while food away consumed away from home has risen substantially. We then show that estimates of … food expenditure elasticities of different food types are highly sensitive to different estimation approaches, raising … concerns regarding the existing evidence base on food consumption patterns reliant on estimation of food expenditure …

Taking a food systems approach is a promising strategy for improving diets. Implementing such an approach would require … the use of a comprehensive set of metrics to characterize food systems, set meaningful goals, track food systems … performance, and evaluate the impacts of food systems interventions. Food systems metrics are also useful to structure debates and …

countries. To reduce malnutrition, innovations in food systems are needed to both provide sufficient options for consumers to … healthier diets. A potential solution to this challenge is food systems innovations designed to lead to healthier diets. In this … paper, we lay out a multidisciplinary framework for both identifying and analyzing innovations in food systems that can lead …

increasing the resilience of food systems in the developing world. In order to develop a sustainable and lasting impact, it is … imperative that both market actors and private actors be involved in addressing the new challenges facing vulnerable food systems …

Although the diversification of national food supplies (DFS) is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for the … level of economic development. We discuss the implications of these findings for food and nutrition strategies, particularly … food basket …

The paper uses a food systems approach to analyze the bidirectional relationships between climate change and food and … nutrition along the entire food value chain. It then identifies adaptation and mitigation interventions for each step of the … food value chain to move toward a more climate-smart, nutrition-sensitive food system. The study focuses on poor rural …

South Sudan faces serious problems of food insecurity due to low per capita levels of domestic food production … national food security reserve (NFSR) system with a small national food security stock is feasible for South Sudan. Cereal … private-sector domestic and import trade will remain crucial for ensuring adequate supplies of grain and food security …

The food systems approach can contribute to food security and reduced malnutrition levels by identifying key … investments and policies throughout the food system, including production, processing, marketing, and consumption of food. However … nutritious food. Multi-sectoral approaches to promote nutrition sensitivity and achieve diet-based solutions have also had only …

-tolerant technologies have the potential to reduce yield variability and help insulate farmers from the risks posed by these hazards. This … conducted in rural Odisha, we estimate farmers' valuation for drought-tolerant and submergence-tolerant traits embodied in paddy … cultivars. We find that farmers value both yield-increasing traits and variability-reducing traits. Interestingly, we find …

This study measures the willingness of male and female farmers to pay for climate-smart technology in rice. Rice is the … out a discrete choice experiment with 666 farmers from the Palghar and Thane districts of Maharashtra to measure their … willingness to pay for drum seeders — a key piece of equipment for adopting DSR. Both male and female farmers were surveyed to …