We work on the premise that healthier lives can be achieved through healthier diets. Hence food systems need to transform to enable healthier diets and reduce all forms of malnutrition. Quality research is needed to generate evidence to guide transformation of food systems. Our areas of focus address different elements as well as outcomes of the food system:

Sustainable Food Supply Chains

Sustainable Food Supply Chains

The food supply chain consists of actors and activities in various steps from food production; storage and distribution; & processing and packaging. Achieving sustainable food supply chains is an important …

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Food Environments and Consumer Choice

Food Environments and Consumer Choice

In order to purchase, prepare and consume food, consumers interact with the food system through the food environment either physically, economically, politically or socio-culturally.  These contexts, …

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Healthy Diets, Nutrition and Health

Healthy Diets, Nutrition and Health

The key product of a sustainable food system is healthier diets. Important aspects of healthy diets are quality, quantity, frequency, diversity, and safety. Poor diets are key contributors to food insecurity …

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Poverty, Gender and Policy

Poverty, Gender and Policy

We incorporate various cross-cutting areas in all our research and development programs, with the understanding that there are a lot of interactions in the food system, and that the food system has other …

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Food System Transformation Programs

Food System Transformation Programs

Research to transform and orient food systems will only be useful if it is used to improve policy and programs, or develop more appropriate ones. We will use evidence from our research and other researches …

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