Concepts of healthy and environmentally sustainable diets clash with a life in transition - Findings from a qualitative study in urban Burkina Faso.

Background: Sub-Saharan African countries like Burkina Faso face a dietary transition and are experiencing a shift in disease burden.

Objective: We explored perceptions of healthy and environmentally sustainable dietary habits in urban Burkina Faso in order to tailor nutritional interventions to the local population and ultimately improve public and planetary health.

Methods: We conducted an exploratory qualitative study with semi-structured face-to-face interviews in three informal and two formal neighborhoods of Ouagadougou.

Sustainable dietary weight loss intervention and its effects on cardiometabolic parameters and greenhouse gas emissions: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial with overweight and obese adults in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Introduction: The global obesity epidemic and its adverse health effects have reached sub-Saharan Africa. In some urban settings, like Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou, up to 43% of the adult population are overweight or obese. At the same time, modernised food systems are responsible for 26% of global greenhouse gas emissions, 50% of land use and 70% of freshwater use.