<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Atmos K Laar</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Phyllis Addo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aryeetey, Richmond</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Charles Agyemang</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Francis Zotor</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gershim Asiki</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Krystal K Rampalli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gideon S Amevinya</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Akua Tandoh</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Silver Nanema</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Akosua Pokua Adjei</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Matilda E Laar</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kobby Mensah</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dennis Laryea</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Daniel Sellen</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stefanie Vandevijvere</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Christopher Turner</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hibbah Osei-Kwasi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mark Spires</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Christine Blake</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dominic Rowland</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Suneetha Kadiyala</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Isabel Madzorera</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Adama Diouf</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Covic, Namukolo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Isaac M Dzudzor</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Reginald Annan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Milani, Peiman</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">John Nortey</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nicholas Bricas</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mphumuzi, Sukati</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kenneth Yongabi Anchang</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ali Jafri</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Meenal Dhall</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Amanda Lee</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sally Mackay</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Samuel O Oti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Karen Hofman</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Edward A Frongillo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Michelle Holdsworth</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Perspective: Food Environment Research Priorities for Africa-Lessons from the Africa Food Environment Research Network.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Adv Nutr</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Africa</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">food</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Malnutrition</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">noncommunicable diseases</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Research</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2022</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2022 06 01</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">13</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Over the last 2 decades, many African countries have undergone dietary and nutrition transitions fueled by globalization, rapid urbanization, and development. These changes have altered African food environments and, subsequently, dietary behaviors, including food acquisition and consumption. Dietary patterns associated with the nutrition transition have contributed to Africa's complex burden of malnutrition-obesity and other diet-related noncommunicable diseases (DR-NCDs)-along with persistent food insecurity and undernutrition. Available evidence links unhealthy or obesogenic food environments (including those that market and offer energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods and beverages) with suboptimal diets and associated adverse health outcomes. Elsewhere, governments have responded with policies to improve food environments. However, in Africa, the necessary research and policy action have received insufficient attention. Contextual evidence to motivate, enable, and create supportive food environments in Africa for better population health is urgently needed. In November 2020, the Measurement, Evaluation, Accountability, and Leadership Support for Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention Project (MEALS4NCDs) convened the first Africa Food Environment Research Network Meeting (FERN2020). This 3-d virtual meeting brought researchers from around the world to deliberate on future directions and research priorities related to improving food environments and nutrition across the African continent. The stakeholders shared experiences, best practices, challenges, and opportunities for improving the healthfulness of food environments and related policies in low- and middle-income countries. In this article, we summarize the proceedings and research priorities identified in the meeting to advance the food environment research agenda in Africa, and thus contribute to the promotion of healthier food environments to prevent DR-NCDs, and other forms of malnutrition.&lt;/p&gt;
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