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The Food Systems Dashboard is a new tool to inform better food policy

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The Food Systems Dashboard brings together extant data from public and private sources to help decision makers understand their food systems, identify their levers of change and decide which ones need to be pulled.

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Fig. 1: Food Systems Framework.
Fig. 2: The steps involved in shaping the Food Systems Dashboard.

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The development of the Food Systems Dashboard has been supported by the Johns Hopkins University’s Alliance for a Healthier World, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Irish Aid, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands, IDRC, and Swiss Development Corporation.

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  1. The Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Jessica Fanzo, Rebecca McLaren & Claire Davis

  2. The Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Jessica Fanzo

  3. The Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Jessica Fanzo, Quinn Marshall, Alexandra Bellows, Lais Miachon, Yuxuan Gu & Martin Bloem

  4. Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition https://www.gainhealth.org/

    Lawrence Haddad & Ty Beal

  5. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

    Anna Herforth

  6. School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Andrew Jones

  7. College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    David Tschirley

  8. iTech Mission, New Delhi, India

    Arun Kapuria

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Fanzo, J., Haddad, L., McLaren, R. et al. The Food Systems Dashboard is a new tool to inform better food policy. Nat Food 1, 243–246 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-0077-y

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