Urban food systems and diets, nutrition, and health of the poor: Challenges, opportunities, and research gaps

Marie Ruel (), Jef Leroy, Olivier Ecker, Manuel Hernandez, Danielle Resnick () and James Thurlow

Chapter 19 in Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South, 2020, pp 380-396 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Rapid urbanization, population growth, migration, globalization, climate change, and income growth are creating unprecedented challenges for food systems in the global south. Urban centres face stubborn problems of undernutrition, which now co-exist with rapidly rising obesity and non-communicable diseases. Unhealthy diets are at the root of all forms of malnutrition. In urban areas, diets are changing rapidly as a result of changing lifestyle, work, and income factors that affect food choices and supply factors such as the modernization of food environments and food systems. This chapter lays out a conceptual framework of the different drivers of urban diets and uses it to review evidence on their actual contribution to the diets, nutrition and health of the urban poor. The chapter concludes with a set of key research priorities for informing future action on transforming urban food systems towards healthier diets, nutrition, and health for the urban poor.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Geography; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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