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FEED Cities project: The food environment description in cities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia - Turkmenistan. Technical report

Bibliographic Details
Summary:	This technical report presents results from the FEEDcities Project - eastern Europe and central Asia. This cross-sectional survey was conducted in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan in October 2016 to evaluate the local urban food environment. It characterized the vending sites, the food offered and the nutritional composition of the industrial and homemade street foods available in these settings. It also described the nutritional composition of ready-to-eat foods sold in supermarkets and at vending sites in food courts. The policy implications of the findings are outlined.
Subject:	Ciências da Saúde, Ciências médicas e da saúde Health sciences, Medical and Health sciences
Country:	Portugal
Document type:	report
Access type:	Open
Associated institution:	Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
Language:	Portuguese
Origin:	Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto

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Summary:	This technical report presents results from the FEEDcities Project - eastern Europe and central Asia. This cross-sectional survey was conducted in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan in October 2016 to evaluate the local urban food environment. It characterized the vending sites, the food offered and the nutritional composition of the industrial and homemade street foods available in these settings. It also described the nutritional composition of ready-to-eat foods sold in supermarkets and at vending sites in food courts. The policy implications of the findings are outlined.