Improving nutrition through enhanced food environments

By:
Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition
Date:
2017
Resource type:
Advocacy and policy

Policy brief by the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition looking at the evidence for governments and the private sector to work together to improve the nutritional quality of food available on the market. It gives a conceptual framework of links between diet quality and food systems and has a summary of taxes on less nutritious foods in Mexico and Hungary. The briefing gives clear lessons from countries that introduced taxes on targeted foods and provides valuable learning on incentive structures for responsible business actions in the food system.  

This resource has been peer reviewed