Spatiotemporal trends in adequacy of dietary nutrient production and food sources

Addressing the triple burden of malnutrition requires significant improvements in nutritional outcomes from food production. We assessed the nutrient adequacy of primary production for 177 countries between 1995 and 2015 by comparing population requirements to dietary nutrient production based on highly disaggregate crop, livestock, and seafood data. While total production can adequately provide the global human population with all nutrients except vitamin A, up to 120 countries have inadequate domestic production. Globally, cereals, roots and tubers, vegetables, milk and marine fish are the main drivers of increased nutrient production over the study period. Our detailed commodity-level analysis highlights that nutrition-sensitive food policies with targeted production and trade interventions, and informed by highly disaggregate production data, are required to meet Sustainable Development Goals.