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Foreign direct investment (FDI) by transnational food companies into developing countries drives the nutrition transition by increasing the availability, lowering the prices, and expanding the marketing of highly processed foods, thereby increasing their consumption.
Public health policy should target foreign direct investment in the food sector as a primary lever for improving population health. Governments in developing countries should implement regulatory conditionalities on foreign food companies, such as restrictions on marketing to children and requirements for nutritional standards, to 'redirect' the nutrition transition towards healthier outcomes.
FDI has been a key mechanism in shaping the global market for highly processed foods... it has played a role in the nutrition transition by enabling and promoting the consumption of these foods in developing countries.
Why this rating
This is a review paper synthesizing economic data and case studies, not a primary clinical trial.
Source
The role of foreign direct investment in the nutrition transition
Corinna Hawkes · Public Health Nutrition · 2005
DOI 10.1079/phn2004706
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