2020 Reports

Food system PPPs: can they advance public health and business goals at the same time?

Fanzo, Jessica C.; Shawar, Yusra Ribhi; Shyam, Tara; Das, Shreya; Shiffman, Jeremy

This paper considers whether Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) focused on improving diets and nutrition can simultaneously advance public health nutrition goals and business goals. Discussion around the efficiency of PPPs is polarised in the field of nutrition: they are seen to have considerable potential to improve diet and nutrition outcomes by harnessing resources, reach, relationships and knowledge, but there is also some mistrust of private-sector actors and their motives.