成员简介
Rachel Nugent
组织:
University of Washington
国家:
美国
I am working on:
Nutrition-related chronic diseases and agricultural and food system interventions to improve health
Rachel Nugent
Dear All:
Thanks for the good discussion. As part of the anniversary of the UN High Level Meeting on Non-communicable Diseases, yesterday the ONE blog published a short piece on agriculture and food security (http://www.one.org/blog/2012/09/19/food-is-linked-to-ncds-and-producers-...) that urges a broader understanding of food security. This was much debated in the last FSN discussion [Coming to terms with terminology, ed.], but here we are making the point that the formal definition is not lacking so much as the interpretation for programming purposes of what real food security is – including avoidance of excess calories without nutrition. Achieving that goal requires substantial changes in agriculture and food systems as my report details.
You asked what research needs to be done to narrow the gap between agriculture and good nutrition. Here are a few suggestions.
Improve understanding of causal links among agriculture, nutrition, and various health outcomes
Develop “mutual metrics” that are understood and endorsed by all sectors to they can work together on common objectives
Produce a generalizable measure of food diversity
Improve understanding of what influences consumer behavior to consume healthy food
Understand how to implement and measure the impacts of policy choices across sectors
Thanks.
rachel
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Rachel A. Nugent, Ph.D. | Director
Disease Control Priorities Network | Department of Global Health
University of Washington | Seattle, WA 98104