Strengthening Food Consumption Information Systems To Promote Healthy Diets

Diet is at the nexus of agricultural production, environmental sustainability, and nutrition and health status.  And yet, in order to be able to successfully promote food-based policies that enable nutritious and sustainable diets, it is critical to have information on what people are eating and why. This module describes various policy applications of dietary data, as well as the key bottlenecks that have hindered its availability, access, and use in most low and middle income countries. The module reviews the strengths and weaknesses of methods for collecting dietary data through surveys and secondary sources of food consumption and dietary information. The module then describes an innovative new platform, called INDDEX24, which is intended to streamline the collection and analysis of dietary data globally.