Summary The Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region faces a major diet‐related
health problem accompanied by enormous economic and social costs. The shifts in diet are …

The prevalence of overweight and obesity is rapidly increasing among Latin American
children, posing challenges for current healthcare systems and increasing the risk for a wide …

Supermarkets have become the most important provider of food products worldwide.
However, empirical evidence about how consumers make their food purchase decisions in …

Five decisions by supermarket operators have important dietary implications: the location of
their outlets; the foods they sell; the prices they charge; the promotional strategies they use; …

A woman with hypertension refuses vegetables. A man with diabetes adds iron-fortified
sugar to his coffee. As death rates from heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes in Latin America …

The globalisation of agrifood systems is a mega-trend with potentially profound nutritional
implications. This paper describes various facets of this globalisation process and reviews …

Overweight and obesity are growing health problems in many developing countries. Rising
obesity rates are the result of changes in people's diets and lifestyles. Income growth and …

Many developing countries face a rapid increase in overweight and obesity, inasmuch as
the prevalence has now nearly converged to levels observed in high-income countries …

This paper investigates the effect of supermarkets on food consumption patterns in urban
Kenya using cross-sectional household survey data collected in 2012. To establish …

Many developing countries experience a food system transformation with a rapid growth of
supermarkets. We analyze impacts of supermarkets on farm household nutrition with survey …