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Changing diets: Urbanization and the nutrition transition

In: 2017 Global Food Policy Report

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  • Hawkes, Corinna
  • Harris, Jody
  • Gillespie, Stuart

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Diets are changing with rising incomes and urbanization— people are consuming more animal-source foods, sugar, fats and oils, refined grains, and processed foods. This “nutrition transition” is causing increases in overweight and obesity and diet-related diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. Urban residents are making the nutrition transition fastest— but it is occurring in rural areas too. Urban food environments—with supermarkets, food vendors, and restaurants—facilitate access to unhealthy diets, although they can also improve access to nutritious foods for people who can afford them. For the urban poor, the most easily available and affordable diets are often unhealthy.

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  • Hawkes, Corinna & Harris, Jody & Gillespie, Stuart, 2017. "Changing diets: Urbanization and the nutrition transition," IFPRI book chapters, in: 2017 Global Food Policy Report, chapter 4, pages 34-41, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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    1. Soo Jin Park & Heather Yeatman & Joanna Russell & Catherine MacPhail, 2022. "Barriers to Urban Food Action: Relevance of Food Pedagogies," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(3), pages 1-17, January.
    2. Purushotham, Anjali & Mittal, Nitya & Ashwini, B.C. & Umesh, K.B. & von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan & Vollmer, Sebastian, 2022. "A quantile regression analysis of dietary diversity and anthropometric outcomes among children and women in the rural–urban interface of Bangalore, India," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 107(C).
    3. Mun Ho & Wolfgang Britz & Ruth Delzeit & Florian Leblanc & Roberto Roson & Franziska Schuenemann & Matthias Weitzel, 2020. "Modelling Consumption and Constructing Long-Term Baselines in Final Demand," Journal of Global Economic Analysis, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, vol. 5(1), pages 63-108, June.
    4. Fong, Ted Chun Tat & Ho, Rainbow Tin Hung & Yip, Paul Siu Fai, 2019. "Effects of urbanization on metabolic syndrome via dietary intake and physical activity in Chinese adults: Multilevel mediation analysis with latent centering," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 234(C), pages 1-1.

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