Food governance for better access to sustainable diets: A review
‘Governance’, understood as organizational governance, is essential to more sustainable food provisioning systems ensuring sustainable health, heritage, and natural environments. Governance enables regional and local perspectives to be aligned with commitments from national and international organiz...
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| author | Martín del Valle M Kirsteen Shields Ana Sofía Alvarado Vázquez Mellado Sofía Boza |
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| description | ‘Governance’, understood as organizational governance, is essential to more sustainable food provisioning systems ensuring sustainable health, heritage, and natural environments. Governance enables regional and local perspectives to be aligned with commitments from national and international organizations. Within the wealth of scholarship on food systems governance, agricultural governance and agency is a rarely interrogated dimension, despite the clear impacts of agricultural decisions on health and environmental outcomes. In this paper we discuss the findings of a scoping review that focuses on the question “How can food governance transform food systems to ensure better access to sustainable diets?”, meaning diet that protect health, cultures, and the natural environment. Our results show that it is first needed to determine the governance level and the expected outcomes. From a national perspective, policy coherence is described as a way in which different public institutions can add to the sustainable diets access goal. From a local perspective, community supported activities and the incorporation of local knowledge are also described as ways that can help achieving an improvement on sustainable diets access. Either from a regional or local perspective, commitment from organizations must be ensured for common objectives being aligned. Also, it is necessary to request more from the agricultural sector role in delivering nutritionally and environmentally appropriate food. Thus, the idea of governing agriculture as a health and environmental activity is an approach that should be considered when designing, implementing, and assessing food systems. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7a8a75acb97e406c949f3afbe46e8daa2022-12-22T04:25:28ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems2571-581X2022-09-01610.3389/fsufs.2022.784264784264Food governance for better access to sustainable diets: A reviewMartín del Valle M0Kirsteen Shields1Ana Sofía Alvarado Vázquez Mellado2Sofía Boza3Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomGlobal Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomCollaboration for Public Health Research and Policy (SCPHRP), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomDepartment of Management and Rural Innovation, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile‘Governance’, understood as organizational governance, is essential to more sustainable food provisioning systems ensuring sustainable health, heritage, and natural environments. Governance enables regional and local perspectives to be aligned with commitments from national and international organizations. Within the wealth of scholarship on food systems governance, agricultural governance and agency is a rarely interrogated dimension, despite the clear impacts of agricultural decisions on health and environmental outcomes. In this paper we discuss the findings of a scoping review that focuses on the question “How can food governance transform food systems to ensure better access to sustainable diets?”, meaning diet that protect health, cultures, and the natural environment. Our results show that it is first needed to determine the governance level and the expected outcomes. From a national perspective, policy coherence is described as a way in which different public institutions can add to the sustainable diets access goal. From a local perspective, community supported activities and the incorporation of local knowledge are also described as ways that can help achieving an improvement on sustainable diets access. Either from a regional or local perspective, commitment from organizations must be ensured for common objectives being aligned. Also, it is necessary to request more from the agricultural sector role in delivering nutritionally and environmentally appropriate food. Thus, the idea of governing agriculture as a health and environmental activity is an approach that should be considered when designing, implementing, and assessing food systems.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2022.784264/fullculturefood governancefood systemsagriculturescoping reviewsustainable diets |
| spellingShingle | Martín del Valle M Kirsteen Shields Ana Sofía Alvarado Vázquez Mellado Sofía Boza Food governance for better access to sustainable diets: A review Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems culture food governance food systems agriculture scoping review sustainable diets |
| title | Food governance for better access to sustainable diets: A review |
| title_full | Food governance for better access to sustainable diets: A review |
| title_fullStr | Food governance for better access to sustainable diets: A review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Food governance for better access to sustainable diets: A review |
| title_short | Food governance for better access to sustainable diets: A review |
| title_sort | food governance for better access to sustainable diets a review |
| topic | culture food governance food systems agriculture scoping review sustainable diets |
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