TY - JOUR
T1 - Holding no-one back
T2 - The Nutrition Equity Framework in theory and practice
AU - Nisbett, Nicholas
AU - Harris, Jody
AU - Backholer, Kathryn
AU - Baker, Philip
AU - Jernigan, Valarie Blue Bird
AU - Friel, Sharon
N1 - Funding Information:
Nicholas Nisbett reports a relationship with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation India that includes: funding grants. Kathryn Backholer reports a relationship with National Heart Foundation of Australia that includes: funding grants. Nicholas Nisbett reports a relationship with UK Research and Innovation that includes: funding grants.
Funding Information:
We are grateful to the International Expert Group of the Global Nutrition Report for review and comments at an earlier stage of this work, particularly to the Chairs, Renata Micha, Venkatesh Mannar, Charlotte Martineau of Development Initiatives. We are also grateful to Mary Wickenden at the Institute of Development Studies, for reading and commenting on a draft at this earlier stage and providing insightful recommendations on disability and exclusion. Funding for Jody Harris' participation within this research was provided by long-term strategic donors to the World Vegetable Center: Taiwan, UK aid from the UK government, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Germany, Thailand, Philippines, Korea, and Japan.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors
PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - Equity remains poorly conceptualised in current nutrition frameworks and policy approaches. We draw on existing literatures to present a novel Nutrition Equity Framework (NEF) that can be used to identify priorities for nutrition research and action. The framework illustrates how social and political processes structure the food, health and care environments most important to nutrition. Central to the framework are processes of unfairness, injustice and exclusion as the engine of nutrition inequity across place, time and generations, ultimately influencing both nutritional status and people's space to act. The NEF illustrates conceptually how action on the socio-political determinants of nutrition is the most fundamental and sustainable way of improving nutrition equity for everyone everywhere, through ‘equity-sensitive nutrition’. Efforts must ensure, in the words of the Sustainable Development Goals, that not only is “no one left behind” but also that the inequities and injustices we describe do not hold anyone back from realising their right to healthy diets and good nutrition.
AB - Equity remains poorly conceptualised in current nutrition frameworks and policy approaches. We draw on existing literatures to present a novel Nutrition Equity Framework (NEF) that can be used to identify priorities for nutrition research and action. The framework illustrates how social and political processes structure the food, health and care environments most important to nutrition. Central to the framework are processes of unfairness, injustice and exclusion as the engine of nutrition inequity across place, time and generations, ultimately influencing both nutritional status and people's space to act. The NEF illustrates conceptually how action on the socio-political determinants of nutrition is the most fundamental and sustainable way of improving nutrition equity for everyone everywhere, through ‘equity-sensitive nutrition’. Efforts must ensure, in the words of the Sustainable Development Goals, that not only is “no one left behind” but also that the inequities and injustices we describe do not hold anyone back from realising their right to healthy diets and good nutrition.
KW - Equity
KW - Framework
KW - Nutrition
KW - Review
KW - Social determinants
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85121553545&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100605
DO - 10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100605
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85121553545
SN - 2211-9124
VL - 32
JO - Global Food Security
JF - Global Food Security
M1 - 100605
ER -