Perceived constraints to healthy diets: Evidence from agrifood system assessments in rural South Asia

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centre
cg.authorship.typesConsultant
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research institute
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Institute
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of South Carolina
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Fund
cg.contributor.initiativeTransforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.creator.identifierSuman Chakrabarti: 0000-0002-5078-2173
cg.creator.identifierSunny S. Kim: 0000-0003-3960-3354
cg.creator.identifierSamuel Scott: 0000-0002-5564-0510
cg.howPublishedGrey Literature
cg.identifier.dataurlhttps://www.cgiar.org/news-events/news/open-access-agrifood-system-data-from-4000-households-across-bangladesh-india-and-nepal/en
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.06.25320037
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.reviewStatusInternal Review
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformation
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
dc.contributor.authorPatwardhan, Sharvari
dc.contributor.authorChakrabarti, Suman
dc.contributor.authorChoo, Esther M.
dc.contributor.authorBoncyk, Morgan
dc.contributor.authorBlake, Christine
dc.contributor.authorKim, Sunny S.
dc.contributor.authorScott, Samuel P.
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-16T14:35:41Zen
dc.date.available2025-01-16T14:35:41Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/169258
dc.titlePerceived constraints to healthy diets: Evidence from agrifood system assessments in rural South Asiaen
dcterms.abstractThe healthfulness of diets in South Asia is limited by socio-economic and public infrastructure challenges. Perceptions about food such as availability, accessibility, desirability, and convenience can impact food choice and ultimately diets. However, there are limited tools to understand consumers’ perceptions of these factors and if perceptions relate to actual food intake. Using a novel tool administered across five rural districts in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal, we quantify the association between food perceptions and food intake. A Likert scale (agree, neutral, disagree) was used to capture respondents’ perceptions about seven food choice drivers (affordability, accessibility, desirability, convenience, food quality, food safety, availability) for a list of six common foods. For each food, principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to identify latent “drivers”. The association between these and diets (using 24-hour dietary recall data) was estimated using multivariable regression analysis. There was considerable heterogeneity across countries with respect to the relative importance of food choice drivers and diet quality. There is a need to measure and understand individual food perceptions that drive food choice to help develop policies that promote healthier food choices.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientists
dcterms.bibliographicCitationPatwardhan, Sharvari; Chakrabarti, Suman; Choo, Esther M.; Boncyk, Morgan; Blake, Christine; et al. 2025. Perceived constraints to healthy diets: Evidence from agrifood system assessments in rural South Asia. MedRxiv available January 9, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.06.25320037en
dcterms.issued2025-01-09
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
dcterms.subjectcapacity buildingen
dcterms.subjectrural areasen
dcterms.subjecthealthy dietsen
dcterms.subjectagrifood systemsen
dcterms.subjectsurveysen
dcterms.typePreprint

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