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Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture

Nutrition-sensitive agriculture is an approach to food and farming systems that aims to improve nutritional outcomes alongside agricultural production, treating the quality, diversity, and accessibility of food as explicit goals rather than by-products of increased output. It recognizes that producing more calories …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 9 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 146× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2379-7835

Overview

Nutrition-sensitive agriculture is an approach to food and farming systems that aims to improve nutritional outcomes alongside agricultural production, treating the quality, diversity, and accessibility of food as explicit goals rather than by-products of increased output. It recognizes that producing more calories does not by itself ensure adequate intake of micronutrients, protein, and dietary variety, and it seeks to strengthen the pathways linking agriculture to diet, income, and health. Core strategies include diversifying crops and livestock, promoting nutrient-dense and biofortified foods, reducing post-harvest loss, integrating nutrition education, and improving the position of women, whose decisions strongly influence household feeding. The framework connects food systems to determinants of nutritional status such as complementary feeding practices, dietary diversity, and access to balanced diets, and it situates agriculture within broader efforts to prevent undernutrition and diet-related disease. Measuring success requires linking agricultural interventions to indicators of consumption and nutritional status rather than yield alone. Conceptually, nutrition-sensitive agriculture spans agronomy, food science, economics, and public-health nutrition, emphasizing how production choices shape what people actually eat. It thus reframes agricultural development around human nutrition, designing food systems that deliver not only sufficient quantity but the dietary quality needed for healthy populations.

Research published in this journal

9 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2019

Functional Food

Monica ButnariuCorresponding author
International Journal of Nutrition Cited by 109 doi:10.14302/issn.2379-7835.ijn-19-2615

How this research is being cited

The 9 articles above have been cited 146 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Nov 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Nutrition (ISSN 2379-7835).

Journal editorial board
Christopher Ochner · United States Alicja Kuban-Jankowska · Poland Angel Catala · Argentina

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