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Urban Food Systems for Better Diets, Nutrition, and Health in Low and Middle-Income Countries
1. Urban Food Systems
for Better Diets, Nutrition, and Health
in Low and Middle-Income Countries
Jef Leroy
Washington, DC
May 16, 2019
2. Urban diets are changing
• Poor-quality diets drive all forms of malnutrition
• “Nutrition transition” faster in urban than rural areas
• Traditional diets consisting of coarse grains, staple cereals, and pulses
→ diets high in sugar, salt, saturated fat
• Increasing consumption of ultra-processed foods
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China Malaysia Philippines Thailand India
Grams/person/day
Sales of ultraprocessed foods
(2005 to 2017)
2005 2017
Source: Barry Popkin, Euromonitor
3. Urban diets are changing
• Poor-quality diets drive all forms of malnutrition
• “Nutrition transition” faster in urban than rural areas
• Traditional diets consisting of coarse grains, staple cereals, and pulses
→ diets high in sugar, salt, saturated fat
• Increased consumption of ultra-processed foods
NUTRITIONAL
STATUS
Cell Metabolism, 2019
5. IFPRI’s urban research program will focus on the
drivers of urban diets:
• Consumer and household
• Food environment
• Food system
What shapes urban diets?
7. Individual and household factors shape
diets of the urban poor
• Urban dwellers purchase most of their
food:
• Livelihoods often depend on unstable employment
• Less access to social safety nets (compared to rural
counterparts), leaving the poor vulnerable to shocks.
• Women engaged in the workforce with limited
childcare options
• Time constraints and limited access to cooking
facilities:
• Convenience of processed and ultra-processed ready-to-eat snacks
and foods, street foods, and quick meals
• Risk of overconsumption of energy, added sugar, and salt
9. Urban diets depend on the food environment
• Urban dwellers generally have
access to a more diverse food
supply than individuals in rural
areas, but…
• …are exposed to
• energy-dense and nutrient-poor ultra-processed
foods
• aggressive marketing of ultra-processed foods
• modernizing food retail sector, accelerated
spread of supermarkets
11. The urban food environment is part of the food system
• Food environment is “interface” between
the consumer and the food system
• Increases in trade and globalization have
changed the urban food system
12. Addressing the urban poor’s nutrition problems requires
better evidence
IFPRI’s urban research program seeks to generate
better evidence on…
• Diets
• What do poor urban dwellers eat?
• What are the drivers of healthy and unhealthy food choices?
• Food environments
• How healthy is the food environment?
• How does it affect food choice?
?
… to inform policies and programs
aimed at improving the diets, nutrition
and health of the urban poor.