Guest Editors’ Introduction: The role of policy in reducing malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa

Théophile T. Azomahou, Raouf Boucekkine (), Harounan Kazianga, Mark Korir and Njuguna Ndung'u

Food Policy, 2022, vol. 113, issue C

Abstract: Sub-Saharan African countries experience various market failures and other constraints in food production, marketing, and food consumption. Consequently, sub-Saharan Africa governments have put in place a myriad of policies to counter these failures. Agricultural, food and nutrition policies address nutrition outcomes, such as hunger, undernourishment, wasting, stunting, child mortality, inadequate food consumption, food insecurity, and volatile food prices, thus improve nutrition outcomes among the population. However, malnutrition persists among the population in the region. To mitigate this challenge, informed, evidence-based policy development and implementation by policy practitioners is of essence. The solutions to the double burden of undernutrition and obesity cut across the agriculture, rural development, and public health sectors. This essay introduces twenty papers of this Special Issue of the Food Policy journal which analyzes 8 policy domains, contributes to the debate on the linkages and pathways through which policies influence food security, nutrition outcomes, and related indicators and points to policy directions in these domains.

Keywords: Agricultural, food and nutrition policy; Nutrition outcomes; Food security; Dietary diversity; Malnutrition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2022.102378

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