Achieving dietary diversity requires a sufficient variety enabling environment for achieving dietary diversity and meeting essential nutrient requirements becomes more critical than ever. This is particularly true in areas that have experienced rapid urbanization; although dietary diversity in such areas may have increased – for example, with the availability of more animal-source foods – diets generally also include more processed high-sugar, high-fat, and less nutrient-dense foods than they did prior to the urban and economic transition. This, coupled with reduced physical activity as lifestyles become more sedentary, has resulted in a complex nutrition paradigm whereby undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies coexist with overweight, obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) . (Innovating for Sustainability, Sight & Life Magazine) Changing this paradigm requires not only individual and household behaviour change but also significant ch...
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