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title: Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
date: 2015-10-08T09:19:00-04:00
author: Mike Mella
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section: Noteworthy
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#### Nutrition & Food Security

### Noteworthy Article 

 

 

   Date: October 8, 2015 

 

 

### Details

 

HealthBridge Deputy Director Peter Berti had a letter published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. He was responding to a paper in which the authors argued that diversity of farm production is not linked to dietary diversity. This is contrary to what many who work in nutrition-sensitive agriculture think and have observed, and is important, as increasing dietary diversity is a key strategy for improving diet and health.

Peter’s letter pointed out a limitation of the analyses presented in the paper, which suggests that the reality is more nuanced than the original paper presents.

The paper, Peter’s letter and a response from the authors are all gated, but an excerpt [can be read here](http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/09/30/1517006112.extract).