NOURICITY

NOURICITY is an EC H2020 ERA-Net Cofund project (2018-2021), funded by a group of donors of the LEAP-Agri Partnership. It project aims at investigating the structure and dynamics of urban food systems in Africa (including rural-urban food value chains) and how they interact with food consumption and behavior in determining the health and nutrition status of the urban population. In particular, it is crucial to reveal the modes of co-existence of the different facets of malnutrition across and within households, as well as their behavioral and systemic drivers. These facets include overnutrition, as captured by the (rising) rates of overweight and obesity prevalence, micronutrient deficiency, for instance captured by insufficient consumption of key food products, and undernutrition, as captured by persisting rates of low age-adjusted height and weight in the population. The research adopts a comparative approach across three countries and study sites in Accra, Cape Town and Kampala...

Primary location: Bonn Germany