Avenues into Food Planning: A Review of Scholarly Food System Research

Brinkley, Catherine

doi:10.1080/13563475.2013.774150

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“…In the mid-1990s, political scientist Kenneth Dahlberg (1994) succinctly characterized the relationship between local governments and food policy: "Food is not seen to be an issue for municipalities" (p. 1). Two decades later, the reality is dramatically different, driven by growing consumer interest in local food, movements for community food security and food justice, and the spread of systems thinking, which views food production and consumption as being inherently linked (Brinkley, 2013;Morgan, 2013;Siddiki, Carboni, Koski, & Sadiq, 2015;Sonnino, 2009). Supported by professional groups such as the American Planning Association (American Planning Association, 2007), local governments are increasingly engaged in food systems planning and policy, both within communities and across regions (Hodgson, 2012;Pothukuchi, 2009;Pothukuchi & Kaufman, 1999).…”

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Food Policy Councils and Local Governments: Creating Effective Collaboration for Food Systems Change

Gupta

Campbell

Munden-Dixon

et al. 2018

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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Drawing data from comparative case studies of 10 California food policy councils (FPCs), this paper describes the nature of the relationships between local governments and FPCs and examines how these relationships support policy-related activities and food systems change. We focus our comparisons on distinct organizational structures, resource flows, and policy activities. All but one of the 10 councils is organized as a multisector community collaborative, rather than as an independent nonprofit organization or a government advisory body. Each includes local government personnel as members and most depend on government resources for their operations, including meeting

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confidence: 99%

Food Policy Councils and Local Governments: Creating Effective Collaboration for Food Systems Change

Gupta

Campbell

Munden-Dixon

et al. 2018

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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“…A good place to start the educational process for local food in the urban environment is to build on the occasional purchase of food at farmers market/farm stands. Studies have indicated that those in the inner city have poorer eating habits than those in other demographics due to what some researchers have called a food desert (Brinkley, 2013;Cummins and Macintyre, 2002). A food desert is described by Cummins and Macintyre (2002) as a part of a large urban area that often suffers from poverty, where affordable and healthy food is often unavailable (Cummins and Macintyre, 2002).…”

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Understanding How Large Metropolitan/Inner City, Urban Cluster, and Rural Students Perceive Food Systems

Bonnell¹,

Hargiss

Norland

2018

Urban Agric & Regnl Food Sys

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The purpose of this research was to understand how students in different demographics in the state of Minnesota understand and perceive concepts relating to food systems. Schools within the demographic categories of large metropolitan/ inner city, urban cluster, and rural areas were chosen to determine if perceptions and knowledge of students were dependent on the demographic in which they lived. A total of 204 students were surveyed using a variety of types of questions to address research objectives. Results indicate that students have a general understanding of food production and where their food comes from, but as food sources become more complex or items are less common, students become confused. Food access did vary, where rural students used gas stations more than their urban counterparts. Large metropolitan/inner city adolescents had higher occasional use of farmer's market/food stands which can be used as a way to start educational understanding about local foods. Students have a strong willingness to learn more about food systems and other environmental topics in school, but agree that they are not often receiving this interaction in the classroom. All demographics had low interest in local food and gardening, but rural students did have more access to these foods. Implications from this study can help researchers and educators understand students' knowledge and perceptions about the food system, how they influence it, and how this changes across demographics.

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“…Central to the integrated food system approach presented in this paper is 'Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security' (SFNS). This partly captures earlier work around food systems that embodies divergent theoretical and ontological framings [35,36] and allows for the embedding of sustainability dimensions into the evaluation of the food systems. This means that the approach also includes the assessment of environmental, social and economic outcomes of the food system.…”

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Assessing Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security of the EU Food System—An Integrated Approach

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Steering the EU food system towards a sustainability transformation requires a vast and actionable knowledge base available to a range of public and private actors. Few have captured this complexity by assessing food systems from a multi-dimensional and multi-level perspective, which would include (1) nutrition and diet, environmental and economic outcomes together with social equity dimensions and (2) system interactions across country, EU and global scales. This paper addresses this gap in food systems research and science communication by providing an integrated analytical approach and new ways to communicate this complexity outside science. Based on a transdisciplinary science approach with continuous stakeholder input, the EU Horizon2020 project 'Metrics, Models and Foresight for European SUStainable Food And Nutrition Security' (SUSFANS) developed a five-step process: Creating a participatory space; designing a conceptual framework of the EU food system; developing food system performance metrics; designing a modelling toolbox and developing a visualization tool. The Sustainable Food and Nutrition-Visualizer, designed to communicate complex policy change-impacts and trade-off questions, enables an informed debate about trade-offs associated with options for change among food system actors as well as in the policy making arena. The discussion highlights points for further research related to indicator development, reach of assessment models, participatory processes and obstacles in science communication.

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Avenues into Food Planning: A Review of Scholarly Food System Research

Cited by 55 publications

References 201 publications

Food Policy Councils and Local Governments: Creating Effective Collaboration for Food Systems Change

Food Policy Councils and Local Governments: Creating Effective Collaboration for Food Systems Change

Understanding How Large Metropolitan/Inner City, Urban Cluster, and Rural Students Perceive Food Systems

Assessing Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security of the EU Food System—An Integrated Approach

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