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Project

Harmonized indicators for measuring progress toward more sustainable, healthier food systems
 

Mexico
South America
Project ID
109472
Total Funding
CAD 1,229,000.00
IDRC Officer
Madiha Ahmed
Project Status
Active
Duration
48 months

Programs and partnerships

Lead institution(s)

Project leader:
Carolina Batis
Mexico

Project leader:
Luciana Castronuovo
Argentina

Project leader:
Rafael Claro
Brazil

Project leader:
Stefanie Vandevijvere
Belgium

Summary

Food systems lie at the intersection of nutrition, population health, environmental sustainability, and climate change. By improving the measurement tools available to researchers, policymakers, and civil society organizations, actions can be taken to transform food systems. Read more

Food systems lie at the intersection of nutrition, population health, environmental sustainability, and climate change. By improving the measurement tools available to researchers, policymakers, and civil society organizations, actions can be taken to transform food systems.
The International Network for Food and Obesity/Non-communicable Diseases Research, Monitoring and Action Support (INFORMAS) develops and deploys research modules that allow researchers and civil society to measure and benchmark the strengths and weaknesses of their national and local food environments. This research makes it possible to track the common underlying drivers of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change.

The research team will identify the public policy and private business actions that must be prioritized for food systems to become more sustainable and enable healthier diets. These will be tested in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda, at both the national and the municipal levels. The project will also develop modelling tools to improve understanding of the cost and affordability of healthy sustainable diets through the diet-cost tool in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Finally, it will strengthen the mechanisms that support the integration of sustainability indicators into the existing INFORMAS framework.