Global Food Security · 8 authors, 8 centres
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This descriptive ecological study used open-access global databases to analyze trends in The Gambia's food supply, nutrition, and health from 1990 to 2017. The central result shows that while total energy supply increased, the diet composition is poor with low fruit/vegetable and high sugar/oil availability, iron deficiency persists, and obesity is rising quickly.
This descriptive study analyzed four open-access global databases to examine food supply, demographic, economic, and nutrition/health trends in The Gambia from 1990 to 2017, comparing them to regional and global averages. The results indicate that total energy supply increased, but overall diet composition is poor, with lower availability of fruit and vegetables and higher supply of sugar and oils compared to regional and global averages. Economic development, particularly GDP, was positively related to the supply of cereals and animal source foods, but no such relationship was observed for fruit and vegetable supply. A key limitation is the ecological nature of the data, which precludes causal inference and population subgroup analysis.
