ArticleGlobal food security2021
Informal food environment is associated with household vegetable purchase patterns and dietary intake in the DECIDE study: Empirical evidence from food vendor mapping in peri-urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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Abstract
We study the relationship between the food environment (FE) and the food purchase patterns, dietary intakes, and nutritional status of individuals in peri-urban Tanzania. In Africa, the prevailing high density of informal vendors creates challenges to characterizing the FE. We present a protocol and tool developed as part of the Diet, Environment, and Choices of positive living (DECIDE) study to measure characteristics of the FE. We mapped 6627 food vendors in a peri-urban settlement of Dar es Salaam, of which over 60% were semi-formal and informal (mobile) vendors. We compute and compare four FE metrics inspired by landscape ecology-density, dispersion, diversity, and dominance-to better understand how the informal food environment relates to food purchase patterns, diets, and nutritional status among households with persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLHIV).
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