Food and nutrient gaps in rural Northern Ghana: Does production of smallholder farming households support adoption of food-based dietary guidelines?

Food-based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) provide guidance to policy makers, the private sector and consumers to redesign food systems and to improve diets of vulnerable populations. As appropriate FBDGs are based on the actual dietary patterns and their costs, it is assumed that the recommended foods a...

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Published in:	PloS one Vol. 13; no. 9; p. e0204014
Main Authors:	de Jager, Ilse, Giller, Ken E., Brouwer, Inge D.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 2018 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Adequacy Agricultural economics Agricultural production Agriculture Ascorbic acid At risk populations Biology and Life Sciences Breast Feeding Calcium Chair Nutrition and Health over the Lifecourse Children Crops Crops, Agricultural Cyanocobalamin Diet Diet Surveys Dietary intake Farmers Farms Female Food Food availability Food production Fruits Ghana Global Nutrition Grain Guidelines HNE Nutrition and Health over the Lifecourse HNE Voeding en Gezondheid in de Levenscyclus Households Humans Infant Infant Food Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena Infants Iron Leerstoelgroep Plantaardige productiesystemen Legumes Linear programming Male Malnutrition Medicine and Health Sciences Nutrient requirements Nutrients Nutrition Nutrition Policy Nutrition research Nutritional Requirements Nutritional Status PE&RC Physical sciences Plant Production Systems Plantaardige Productiesystemen Population studies Populations Private sector Redesign Rural areas Rural Population Rural populations Small farms Vegetables Vitamin A Vitamin B12 Vitamin C VLAG Wereldvoeding Ghana Netherlands Africa
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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