Funded Projects
Studies Funded in Round 1
Behavioral Drivers of Food Choice in Eastern India: International Rice Research Institute; KIIT University, India
Influence of Land Impermanence on conservation and utilization of agrobiodiversity and subsequent effect on food attitudes and consumption patterns:Trócaire; Bioversity International; Makerere University
Drivers of Food Choice in the Context of Overweight among Women and Children in Malawi: RTI International; University of Malawi’s College of Medicine; Harvard University.
Understanding the drivers of diet change and food choice among Tanzanian pastoralists to inform policy and practice: Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University; International Livestock Research Program (ILRI); Sokoine University of Agriculture.
Dietary transitions in Ghanaian cities: mapping the factors in the social and physical food environments that drive consumption of energy dense nutrient-poor (EDNP) foods and beverages, to identify interventions targeting women and adolescent girls throughout the reproductive life course: IRD: French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development; Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, University of Ghana; Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana; Centre for Global Health and Human Development, Loughborough University; the French Agricultural Research & International Cooperative Organization; Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, UK
From Growing Food to Growing Cash: Understanding the Drivers of Food Choice in the Context of Rapid Agrarian Change in Indonesia: Center for International Forestry Research; Pennsylvania State University; University of Brawijaya, East Java, Indonesia
Do agricultural input subsidies on staples reduce dietary diversity?: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; Department of Economics, University of Malawi
Retail diversity for dietary diversity. Preventing nutrition deserts for the urban poor within the transforming food retail environment in Vietnam: Fresh Studio Innovations Asia Ltd.; Bioversity International, Wageningen University
Studies funded in Round 2
Food Choice in Indian Households in the Context of the Nutrition Transition: Emory University; BLDE University; University of Southern California
Drivers of demand for animal-source foods in low-income informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; International Livestock Research Institute; University of Nairobi
Prospecting For Nutrition? How Natural Resource Extraction Impacts Food Choices in Marginalized Communities: Helen Keller International; Johns Hopkins University; Université Julius Nyerere, Kankan, Guinea
Nudging children toward healthier food choices: An experiment combining school and home gardens:World Vegetable Center; Nepal Agricultural Research Council, Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources, Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops
Understanding how dynamic relationships among maternal agency, maternal workload and the food environment affect food choices: Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Africa Innovations Institute; Sasakawa Global 2000, Uganda
Diet, Environment, and Choices of positive living (DECIDE study): Evaluating personal and external food environment influences on diets among PLHIV and families in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Purdue University; Africa Academy for Public Health; University of Illinois, Chicago
Incentivizing fruit and vegetable consumption in urbanizing India: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; National Institute of Nutrition of Indian Council of Medical Research; Public Health Foundation of India; Duke – National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School; Indian School of Business; St. John’s Research Institute, India