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. 2014 Aug 1:47:91-96.
doi: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2014.05.001.

Nutrition, Agriculture and the Global Food System in Low and Middle Income Countries

Barry M Popkin

Nutrition, Agriculture and the Global Food System in Low and Middle Income Countries

Barry M Popkin. Food Policy. .

Abstract

The entire food value chain and diet of low and middle income countries (LMICs) are rapidly shifting. Many of the issues addressed by the nutrition community ignore some of the major underlying shifts in purchases of consumer packaged foods and beverages. At the same time, the drivers of the food system at the farm level might be changing. There is a need for the agriculture and nutrition communities to understand these changes and focus on some of their implications for health. This rapid growth of the retail sector will change the diets of the food insecure as much as that of the food secure across rural and urban LMIC's. This short commentary contents that current research, programs and policies are ignoring these rapid dynamic shifts.

Keywords: Low and middle income countries; consumer packaged foods and beverages; food value chain; nutrition.

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The Proportion of Sales from Modern Consumer Packaged Foods
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The Proportion of calories from processed foods (food and beverages from consumer packaged goods)
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Food Sales per capita per year (2012 US $)
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