Elsevier

Global Food Security

Volume 27, December 2020, 100436
Global Food Security

Conceptual framework of food systems for children and adolescents

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Highlights

  • Children and adolescents face multiple burdens of malnutrition.

  • Current debates on food systems transformation do not prioritize children and adolescents.

  • Food systems are critical for improving diets of children and adolescents.

  • A conceptual framework can enable a better understanding between the elements of food system and the diets of children and adolescents.

Abstract

Transforming food systems is essential to ensuring nutritious, safe, affordable, and sustainable diets for all, including children and adolescents. This paper proposes a new conceptual framework (the ‘Innocenti Framework’) to better articulate how the diets of children and adolescents are shaped by food systems. The framework is comprised of a set of food system drivers, determinants (namely, food supply chains, external food environments, personal food environments, and behaviors of caregivers, children and adolescents), influencers, and interactions, which together determine children's and adolescents' diets. The conceptual framework conceptualizes the dynamic linkages between the elements of food systems, and highlights the importance of continuously shaping food systems to deliver nutritious, safe, affordable, and sustainable diets to children and adolescents.

Keywords

Food systems
Nutrition
Diets
Children
Adolescents
Conceptual framework

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