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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the literature on how biodiversity contributes to improved and diversified diets in developing countries and identify areas where evidence is lacking and ways to build synergies between nutrition-sensitive approaches and efforts to ensure sustainability of food systems and the natural environment.

TL;DR: Compared with Simpson’s index of diversity and functional diversity, species richness (SR) showed stronger associations and better diagnostic properties with micronutrient adequacy, and is recommended as the most appropriate measure of food biodiversity in diets.

TL;DR: The paper identifies research gaps and makes recommendations to enhance the contribution of forest foods to sustainable diets through increased awareness and better integration of information and knowledge on nutritious forest foods into national nutrition strategies and programs.

TL;DR: This paper reviews recent efforts being undertaken in several countries to build evidence of the importance of WFPs, while providing examples of cross-sectoral cooperation and multi-stakeholder approaches that are contributing to advance their conservation and sustainable use.

TL;DR: To study the role of wild food biodiversity in achieving a cost reduction of a nutritionally adequate diet for women and young children in Kenya using linear programming, an application of linear programming to screen available wild foods for meeting recommended nutrient intakes at a minimal cost was illustrated.