What are We Eating? Towards a Canadian Food Policy, Summary: Next Steps on Food Policy Development

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rod Macrae ◽  
Grace Skogstad ◽  
Nathalie Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Food Policy

scholarly journals Food Policy Development in the Australian State of Victoria: A Case Study of the Food Alliance

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Caraher ◽  
Rachel Carey ◽  
Kathy McConell ◽  
Mark Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Australian State

scholarly journals Investment in Agriculture: Methodology and Assessment

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 4680-4684
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Investment Activity ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Bank Deposits ◽  
The Cost

Food security issues have been addressed by many scientists in the framework of food policy development and government regulation of agro-industrial complex (agribusiness), where investment in agribusiness is the cost, expressed in monetary form, whose results are manifested over a long period of time or after a long period.The purpose of the article is to formulate a system of indicators for the analysis of agriculture when developing food policy.Methods. Application of modeling in the course of strategy development in investment activity allows taking into account the specifics of economic activity of agricultural enterprises and variability of efficiency. Results/Conclusion The main types of investment in agriculture are:  capital contributions in the form of investments of financial and material and technical resources in the reproduction of fixed assets, soil fertility, and water resources through new construction, expanded technical re-equipment, and maintenance of existing production;  investing capital in the creation of inventories;  financial resources in the form of shares, bonds and other securities, as well as the cost of the acquisition of treasures and bank deposits, financial assets. When developing food policy, the analysis of indicators characterizing the agricultural organization's performance allows obtaining consolidated indicator. Combining three integrated indicators calculated for each block of indicators (Block 1 – Analysis of crop production; Block 2 – Analysis of animal production; and Block 3 – Analysis of agricultural organizations performance), into consolidated indicator allows assessing the development of agriculture in general.

The administrative state in food policymaking: a fait accompli

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Bancerz
Keyword(s):  
Policy Process ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Administrative State ◽  
Nonstate Actors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Elite Interviews

PurposeThis paper analyzes scholarly literature and the development of a nonstate food strategy in Canada, the Conference Board of Canada's Canadian Food Strategy, to explore the role of the administrative state in food policymaking.Design/methodology/approachThis research is based on an exploratory case study drawing data from 38 semistructured interviews, including elite interviews. It also draws on policy documents from the nonstate food strategy.FindingsThis paper shows that various nonstate actors, including large food industry players, identify a role for the state in food policy in two ways: as a “conductor,” playing a managing role in the food policy process, and as a “commander,” taking control of policy development and involving nonstate actors when necessary. The complex and wicked aspects of food policy require the administrative state's involvement in food policymaking, while tamer aspects of food policy may be less state-centric.Originality/valueThis paper fills gaps in studies exploring food policymaking processes as well as the administrative state's role in food policymaking in a governance era. It contributes to a better understanding of the state's role in complex and wicked policy domains.

Future Agricultural and Food Policy

1981 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G. F. Spitze
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Agricultural Trade ◽  
Farm Family ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
The Future ◽  
National Environment

The agricultural and food policy future now offers more than usual excitement—and also uncertainty. As the calendar turned, it ushered in a year of decision about the future of this nation's public policy concerning its agriculture production, farm family and rural community welfare, consumers' food supply, and agricultural trade. It also signaled the changing of the leading actors who will perform yet unwritten roles in a yet-to-be-titled drama of policy development. All of this will unfold both within an international and national environment of volatile economic forces. It offers all the challenge that a student of policy could expect.

scholarly journals Nutrition and sustainability: an emerging food policy discourse

2012 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Lang ◽  
David Barling
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Nutrition Science ◽  
Sustainable Diet ◽  
Policy Engagement

It is well known that food has a considerable environmental impact. Less attention has been given to mapping and analysing the emergence of policy responses. This paper contributes to that process. It summarises emerging policy development on nutrition and sustainability, and explores difficulties in their integration. The paper describes some policy thinking at national, European and international levels of governance. It points to the existence of particular policy hotspots such as meat and dairy, sustainable diets and waste. Understanding the environmental impact of food systems challenges nutrition science to draw upon traditions of thinking which have recently been fragmented. These perspectives (life sciences, social and environmental) are all required if policy engagement and clarification is to occur. Sustainability issues offer opportunities for nutrition science and scientists to play a more central role in the policy analysis of future food systems. The task of revising current nutrition policy advice to become sustainable diet advice needs to begin at national and international levels.

scholarly journals EXPRESS: Framings of Food Waste: How Food System Stakeholders Are Responsibilized in Public Policy Debate

2021 ◽  
pp. 074391562110057
Author(s):  
Nina Mesiranta ◽  
Elina Närvänen ◽  
Malla Mattila
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Sustainability Issue ◽  
Public Policy Debate

Food waste is a global sustainability issue that demands several stakeholders to participate in solving it. This article examines how different food system stakeholders are held responsible in the policy debate related to food waste reduction. The study adopts a framing approach, paying attention to the construction and negotiation of what is going on in the food waste related public policy debate. The data consist of documents generated as a result of food policy development processes in Finland. The authors identify four framings: eco-efficiency, solidarity, safety and appreciation. Within each framing, the issue of food waste is presented differently, and different stakeholders are responsibilized. The framings reveal the nature of food waste as a boundary object, a flexible and open-ended object that gains different context-dependent meanings. The study extends marketing literature on responsibilization by investigating several stakeholders besides consumers. Additionally, considering food waste as a boundary object unravels how stakeholders, even those with conflicting interests, can debate policy measures collaboratively. Finally, the authors outline policy implications related to each framing.

scholarly journals The need for contextual, place-based food policies: Lessons from Northwestern Ontario

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Connie Nelson ◽  
Charles Z. Levkoe ◽  
Rachel Kakegamic
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Core ◽  
Northwestern Ontario ◽  
Food Policies

In recent years, several reports have highlighted the need for a national food policy that takes a comprehensive approach to addressing food systems (CAC, 2014; Levkoe & Sheedy, 2017; Martorell, 2017; UNGA, 2012). These findings suggest that, at the core, resilient food systems must be built on interconnected knowledge and experience that emerge from place-based interrelationships between human and ecological systems. Drawing on these important learnings, this commentary voices our hopes and concerns around the recent efforts of the Canadian Government to develop a food policy for Canada. While we commend the Government’s desire to “set a long-term vision for the health, environmental, social, and economic goals related to food, while identifying actions we can take in the short-term”, we caution any tendency to develop “best practices” that assume a universal, or “one-size fits all” approach to food policy development. We argue that Canada requires a set of contextual, place-based food policies that emerge from the grassroots, address local needs and desires, and build on the strengths and assets of communities.

scholarly journals Using a trauma-informed policy approach to create a resilient urban food system

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 1961-1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amelie A Hecht ◽  
Erin Biehl ◽  
Sarah Buzogany ◽  
Roni A Neff
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Urban Food System ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
System Resilience

AbstractObjectiveFood insecurity is associated with toxic stress and adverse long-term physical and mental health outcomes. It can be experienced chronically and also triggered or exacerbated by natural and human-made hazards that destabilize the food system. The Baltimore Food System Resilience Advisory Report was created to strengthen the resilience of the city’s food system and improve short- and long-term food security. Recognizing food insecurity as a form of trauma, the report was developed using the principles of trauma-informed social policy. In the present paper, we examine how the report applied trauma-informed principles to policy development, discuss the challenges and benefits of using a trauma-informed approach, and provide recommendations for others seeking to create trauma-informed food policy.DesignReport recommendations were developed based on: semi-structured interviews with food system stakeholders; input from community members at outreach events; a literature review; Geographic Information System mapping; and other analyses. The present paper explores findings from the stakeholder interviews.SettingBaltimore, Maryland, USA.SubjectsBaltimore food system stakeholders stratified by two informant categories: organizations focused on promoting food access (n 13) and community leaders (n 12).ResultsStakeholder interviews informed the recommendations included in the report and supported the idea that chronic and acute food insecurity are experienced as trauma in the Baltimore community.ConclusionsApplying a trauma-informed approach to the development of the Baltimore Food System Resilience Advisory Report contributed to policy recommendations that were community-informed and designed to lessen the traumatic impact of food insecurity.

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