Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Shivani Kachwaha, Lan Mai Tran, et al. Nutrients, October 2021
Food unavailability and poor economic situations, limited exposure to nutrition counseling, food restrictions and beliefs, adverse family influence and gender norms, and gaps in knowledge constrain healthy diets. While food-based programs, behavior change communication, and nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions are promising strategies, impact evaluations show that they face implementation bottlenecks and limited effectiveness when undertaken at-scale in the real world. Investing in systems approaches spanning health, nutrition, and agriculture sectors is critical to promote healthy diets for women.