What's new

Intake has released a new dietary data video. This Intake video focuses on the changing nutritional situation in Ghana, and how dietary patterns are shifting towards increased consumption of “fast foods”. The video is available with English, French, and Spanish sub-titles.

Intake's video to highlight how dietary data can be used to inform evidence-based nutrition programs and policies in low- and middle-income countries is now available with Portuguese sub-titles.  The video is available here.

Intake is working with Harvard University to develop and validate new metrics of diet quality for women of reproductive age for use in low- and middle-income countries. 

For background on the context and motivation for this work, and a review and synthesis of conceptual and operational definitions of diet quality, refer to Intake's technical report, Measuring diet quality among women of reproductive age in low- and middle-income countries: New metrics for changing diets…

UNICEF's State of the World's Children 2019 report focuses on children, food, and nutrition, highlighting the importance of diet quality to children's health, development, and well-being.  The report concludes with an agenda to "put children's nutrition rights first", which includes a recommendation "to collect, analyse and use good-quality data and evidence regularly to guide action and track progress." The report also includes a special section entitled, "Better data, better diets."

FAO and WHO have released Guidelines on Healthy Sustainable Diets, calling for action to "Establish a representative baseline of current diets, when needed conducting individual dietary assessment by age, gender, income, ethnic group, and geography. Use these data to identify which shifts in diet could potentially have the greatest positive impact on both healthy and environment."