The objective of the Transforming Territories Program – TTP – (February 2016 – February 2019) is to support policies and programs that originate greater opportunities and improve the well-being for approximately 900,000 women and men in rural-urba
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to face persistent rural poverty, deepening food insecurity, and declining natural resource base and associated ecosystems services.
The project’s overall goal is to produce a solid evidence base on which to build a strong public intervention for universal access to healthy food in Senegal.
In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), a steady increase in the consumption of ultra-processed food with high levels of fat, sugar, and salt has contributed to an adult overweight rate of over 50% and an obesity rate of 23%.
In Ecuador, rural people, and particularly rural Indigenous people, are disproportionately affected by nutrient inadequacies, obesity, and overweight.
A 2016 survey by the Vietnamese Department of Animal Health found that 80% of the country’s pangasius (freshwater catfish) farmers dispensed a cocktail of antibiotics to the fish throughout the production cycle.