Anna Herforth

Working with lots of partners to generate more cross-country monitoring data on diets, and affordability of diets! @AndyRzepa @TyRBeal @wamasters @saskiadepee @LindsayJaacks @shaunamdowns @Sorrel_N @GAINalliance @RockefellerFdn @giz_gmbh @IMMANA_res @FAO @NutritionForDev

An indicator of healthy diets is proposed for the SDGs! The great thing is that it's possible now to measure easily, at low cost. This new paper describes how it has been done: doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnu…

New review article shows how #LeastCostDiets are being used to track #FoodAccess within countries by #FillTheNutrientGap from @WFP & partners, and globally with #FoodPricesForNutrition by @WorldBankData & @FAOstatistics doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.… #CostOfHealthyDiets #EconTwitter

I really like this framework for holistically tracking food system performance. Food systems must: • Provide healthy, affordable diets • Protect the environment • Sustain livelihoods equitably • Be resilient to shocks • Have effective governance fao.org/documents/card…

Food systems are essential for human life. But they can also cause problems. Our new report shows where countries are doing well and where they can improve. All countries have unique successes and challenges. Article: nature.com/articles/s4301… Policy report: fao.org/documents/card…

Thrilled to announce the Global Diet Quality Project (dietquality.org) won TWO awards last night: the Market Research Society’s 2023 Award for International Research, and the Grand Prix for Social Impact. mrs.org.uk/awards/mrs-awa… @Gallup @GHP_HarvardChan @GAINalliance

🌿Africa has abundant indigenous food resources that support nutrition and health. "Before we talk about what more we can do, how do we take care of what we already have?" -Hon. Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda, Minister of Health, Malawi #ANH2023

@PowellBronwen Thank you Bronwen - you were a part of this big global team! 🙏 Thank you for contributing your expertise

Wow! Anna Herforth et al. What an amazing resource you have created with the DQQ! @AnnaWHerforth #DQQ

So pleased to see the #DQQ highlighted in this East Africa Nutrition Surveillance workshop - as a feasible way to collect diet data routinely in the population 🇺🇬🇰🇪🇹🇿🇲🇼🇿🇲🇷🇼🇸🇴🇩🇯

What makes up a healthy diet? Is a diversity of food groups enough? Principal Investigator at the Global Diet Quality Project @AnnaWHerforth sat down with Caitlin Welsh (@welshce) & @FAONorthAmerica's @LM_Phillips on #ResetTheTable to discuss: bit.ly/3FjxHHO

This is huge. New preprint with first ever data on the state of food systems worldwide. 50 indicators across diets, nutrition & health; environment, natural resources & production; livelihoods, poverty & equity; governance; & resilience & sustainability. researchgate.net/publication/36…

@SwissDevCoop @fiblorg @Afsafrica @SWISSAID Such important work. 👏👏 "two main problems: the lack of seed availability and of market access" - this aligns very much with my experience with farmers growing traditional African veg in Tanzania! #traditionalfoods #NUS

🌱Led by @fiblorg @Afsafrica & @SWISSAID and supported by 🇨🇭, #CROPS4HD promotes forgotten local seeds as low-cost, accessible & climate-appropriate solutions to combat hunger in Niger 🇳🇪, Chad 🇹🇩, Tanzania 🇹🇿, India 🇮🇳 Read more in the latest #EineWelt👉 rb.gy/crq1o6

@PMenonIFPRI @TJKrupnik @Sieg_SAS @CIMMYT Fascinating! I definitely did not imagine this, but glad #DQQ is sparking conversations linking agriculture and nutrition! Thinking about all those food groups shows the importance of diversification. I wonder if other underutilized & neglected foods came up in the discussion🌿

@TJKrupnik @Sieg_SAS @CIMMYT I believe that is the food lists used in the Diet Quality Questionnaire (DQQ) in a participatory interview and discussion. I love this innovative use of a questionnaire to create community discussion! @AnnaWHerforth not sure you imagined this!

More I love about my job: Getting #agronomists to stretch disciplinary boundaries. Today in #bangladesh, #TAFSSA is starting linked social-agronomic #participatory #experiments with #farmers, and studying disparity in #healthy #food grown vs. consumed by men and women. @CIMMYT

Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet data are now available on #FAOSTAT! On behalf of the whole #FoodPricesforNutrition team, so pleased to have collaborated with @FAO to produce these indicators. fao.org/newsroom/detai… @wamasters @Ian_Y_Bai @worldbankdata

Different dietary data collection tools have different purposes. For prevalence of consumption of specific food groups or indicators for diet quality monitoring, the recently developed Diet Quality Questionnaire (DQQ) by @AnnaWHerforth and team works well. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thanks to Betül Uyar for getting this paper out, and all co-authors who did the fieldwork in Ethiopia, Vietnam, and Solomon Islands, including @chrisvogliano @EliseTalsma @TesfayeHailuBe1 !

Everyone can use these #DQQ tools - they are publicly available for download at dietquality.org for >100 countries

New results! The Diet Quality Questionnaire #DQQ , a 5-min survey module, was validated against a 24-hour recall standard method. High similarity in food group consumption and diet quality indicators from the 2 methods. doi.org/10.1016/j.tjnu… @WUR_HNH @GHP_HarvardChan

This session promises to be a good discussion...I'll be presenting on Cost and Affordability of Healthy Diets Nov16 at 8-10am EST, alongside the inimitable @jessfanzo and other great speakers! #FoodPricesforNutrition @FoodPlanetOrg

@tgarchibald @GAINalliance @Gallup @HarvardChanSPH Thanks Tom! And thanks for all the help toward the Gabon adaptation 🇬🇦

🥘What is South Asia eating ? Join us on Nov 9 @ Delivering for Nutrition #D4N2022 conference to hear @AnnaWHerforth from @HarvardChanSPH & @WUR examine the links between agriculture, food systems, & #nutrition in #SouthAsia. 🏃‍♂️Register today! bit.ly/D4N2022