
When indicators were not available, we included that in the Dashboard to advocate for more data collection in these areas, as understanding each component is critical for a complete understanding of food systems. We identified indicators with high-quality data for countries at all income levels, when available, for each of the food systems components and subcomponents in the framework. The Dashboard includes 166 indictors that are mapped across the framework. Our framework aims to describe food systems, the complicated interactions between food systems components, and the impacts on diets, nutrition, and health. Additionally, among the drivers, we narrowed these down as well as adding income growth and distribution. We also expanded upon the food environments subcomponents to include additional elements of food product properties as well as food vendor properties. In adapting the HLPE framework for the Dashboard, we added a fourth component of food systems, individual factors, to capture the economic, cognitive, aspirational, and situational factors that define people and their behavior. The HLPE framework is now being used to inform the United Nations Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems for Nutrition. Additionally, the HLPE framework depicted how food systems impact environmental, social, and economic sustainability. It stressed the importance of food environments in consumer food choices. The HLPE framework identified three foundational components of food systems - food supply chains, food environments, and consumer behavior. The HLPE framework aimed to illustrate how food systems influence diets and nutrition, emphasizing the importance of diets in linking food systems with nutrition and health outcomes. This framework was adapted from the conceptual framework developed by the High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE), the science-policy interface of the United Nations Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in their Nutrition and Food Systems report.
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Additionally, it depicts the drivers that push and pull food systems - climate change, globalization and trade, income growth and distribution, population growth and migration, politics and leadership, and socio-cultural context. The framework also shows how these components impact diets and, ultimately, nutrition and health outcomes. The framework depicts four components of food systems – food supply chains, food environments, individual factors, and consumer behavior – which are all interrelated. The Food Systems Dashboard framework is used to define and describe food systems by summarizing the drivers, components, and outcomes of food systems. Background on the Development of the Conceptual Framework
