Examining the Effects of an Intervention on Food Choices, Dietary Behaviour and Nutritional Status in African Countries: A Systematic Review
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2025-09-04
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Halimi, JihanBekkouche, Somia
Magistris, Tiziana de
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Asociación Española de Economía Agroalimentaria
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This systematic analysis examines how food choice behavior in Africa is influenced by public and private organizations in food environments, such as supermarkets, HORECA (hotels, restaurants, and cafés), workplaces, educational institutions, and school settings. The goal is to evaluate how food intervention programs affect the prevalence of overweight and obesity while investigating moderating factors including socioeconomic and cultural groups that might react differently to interventions. Successful tactics and important influencing elements. This review contributes to the formulation of targeted interventions that promote healthier dietary choices and decrease obesity rates in different African food contexts by identifying successful strategies and significant influencing factors. The review also seeks to understand the processes via which interventions work in obesogenic situations to inform future initiatives aimed at tackling malnutrition in all of its manifestations. A comprehensive search of PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, and Alcorze yielded 8,983 references. Using RYYAN software, duplicates were removed, followed by a screening of title and abstracts resulting in 107 references, of which 38 were considered for data extraction and analysis. The most common themes after data extraction are school-based interventions, nutrition and feeding patterns, programs and policies.
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Halimi, J., Bekkouche, S., & De-Magistris, T. (2025). Examining the Effects of an Intervention on Food Choices, Dietary Behaviour and Nutritional Status in African Countries: A Systematic Review. En: Villanueva, A.J., Muñoz-Gómez, S., Jiménez-Fernández, E. & Colombo S. (Ed.) (2025). Libro de actas del XV Congreso de Economía Agroalimentaria. Asociación Española de Economía Agroalimentaria (p. 645-648). AEAE.
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HD4A project, which received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Program under the grant agreement nº 101083388