Foodscape: A scoping review and a research agenda for food security-related studies

Vonthron, Simon; Perrin, Coline; Soulard, Christophe‐Toussaint

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0233218

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“…1. The concept of foodscape (shortened from food and landscape) originally referred to the characteristics of the (urban) food environment that have an effect of food procurement and consumption but has since diversified to include multiple aspects of the food systems affecting food choices (Vonthron, Perrin, and Soulard 2020). By focusing on the digital foodscape, we want to highlight the role of the internet in not only procuring food (e.g., online ordering and shopping) but also as a discursive environment that affects dietary practices (Goodman and Jaworska 2020;Lewis 2018; Nanjagud and Reddy 2020).…”

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How do trendy diets emerge? An exploratory social media study on the low-carbohydrate diet in Finland

Jauho

Pääkkönen²,

Isotalo³

et al. 2021

Food, Culture & Society

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Various trendy diets characterize the foodscape today. This paper focuses on the low-carbohydrate (LC) diet, which gained large publicity in Finland in late 2010, affecting eating habits and food sales. In order to understand the factors affecting its emergence, we turned to the internet because it is a key environment where enthusiasts meet and new phenomena are forged. By analyzing the prevalence of keywords on carbohydrate-conscious eating in a database of over one billion social media messages in 2001-17, we found two peaks of activity -in 2002-07 and 2011-13. We then used innovative computational text-mining methods to compare the language about the LC diet in the two peaks to seek an explanation for why it became trendy in Finland only in 2011. While the key semantic fields remained roughly the same between the two peak periods on a general level, when the granularity of the model was increased, differences between individual cluster communities were detected that attest to the growing importance and mainstreaming of the diet. The results and the presented method are significant to public health and food industry actors, who want to track emerging food phenomena in the current fast-moving media environments.

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How do trendy diets emerge? An exploratory social media study on the low-carbohydrate diet in Finland

Jauho

Pääkkönen²,

Isotalo³

et al. 2021

Food, Culture & Society

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“…Our study suggests new insight into how the food and nutrition security of immigrant farmworkers is tied not only to livelihoods but also to agri-food land systems. We anticipate this insight can contribute to increasing interest and potential future importance of normative land systems science [67] and landscape approaches [90] on food and nutrition security as well as social justice concerning food-growing populations. A related insight concerns their role in peri-urban land systems, for example, that can potentially partner with expanding movements for city-, region-, and national-scale food and nutrition security (e.g., Spain's Red Inter-Vegas initiative).…”

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Agri-Food Land Transformations and Immigrant Farm Workers in Peri-Urban Areas of Spain and the Mediterranean

Zimmerer

Jiménez-Olivencia

Ruiz-Ruiz

et al. 2020

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Spain is a global hotspot of transformations of agri-food land systems due to changing production intensity, diets, urbanization, market integration, and climate change. Characteristic of the Mediterranean, these expanding intersections with the migration, livelihoods, and food security strategies of immigrant farm workers urge new research into the “who,” “how,” and “why” questions of the transformation of agri-food land systems. Addressing this gap, we communicate preliminary results from field research in the Granada and Madrid areas. We use a novel conceptual framework of linkages among distinct agri-food land systems and the roles and agency of immigrant farm workers. Preliminary results integrating a combined land- and labor-centric approach address: (1) how the recent and ongoing transformations of specific agri-food land systems are indicative of close links to inexpensive, flexible labor of immigrant farm workers; (2) how the connectivity among transformations of multiple distinct agri-food land systems can be related to the geographic mobility of immigrant farm workers and livelihoods (non-farm work, gendered employment, peri-urban residential location, labor recruitment); and (3) how the struggles for food and nutrition security among immigrant farm workers are indicative of links to local sites and networked agrobiodiversity. This study can help advance the nexus of migration-land research with expanding ethical, justice, and policy concerns of land system sciences in relation to the new suite of agri-food interest and initiatives.

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“…Some dimensions that are evaluated are also relevant at higher scales than the farm/ household level (e.g., Novotny et al, 2020). This is the case for example for nutrition, which is assessed in agricultural households only and not across the supply chains that structure food systems (Fanzo et al, 2020;Vonthron et al, 2020). Youth employment is another example where non-agricultural job opportunities are considered, but not analyzed at the relevant scale of the territory (Losch, 2016).…”

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Assessing Transitions to Sustainable Agricultural and Food Systems: A Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE)

Mottet

Bicksler

Lucantoni

et al. 2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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There is increasing interest in agroecology as a way to move toward more sustainable agriculture and food systems. However, the evidence of agroecology's contribution to sustainability remains fragmented because of heterogeneous methods and data, differing scales and timeframes, and knowledge gaps. Facing these challenges, 70 representatives of agroecology-related organizations worldwide participated in the development of the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE), to produce and consolidate evidence on the multidimensional performances of agroecological systems. TAPE is composed of: Step 0, the preliminary step that includes a description of the main socio-economic and demographic characteristics of the agricultural and food systems and an analysis of the enabling environment in terms of relevant policy, market, technology, socio-cultural and/or historical drivers; Step 1, the Characterization of Agroecological Transitions (CAET), based on the 10 Elements of Agroecology adopted by FAO and its member countries, using descriptive scales to establish scores and assessing the degree of transition, with information from the farm/household and community/territory scale; Step 2, the Core Criteria of Performance listing the key dimensions considered relevant to address the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Environment & climate change; Health & nutrition; Society & culture; Economy and Governance. Finally Step 3, a participatory validation of the results obtained from the previous steps with the producers and relevant stakeholders. TAPE can be used (i) to assess the extent of agroecological transition among agricultural producers in a community or a territory, (ii) to monitor and evaluate projects by characterizing the initial and subsequent steps in an agroecological transition, and/or (iii) to evaluate widely diverse agricultural systems against agroecological elements and how they contribute to the achievement of the SDGs. Its application can support the transition of all forms of agricultural systems toward more sustainable practices and the formulation of adequate policies to enable this transformation. Preliminary results from pilot applications show that TAPE can perform in a variety of geographic regions and agroecosystems and that it allows assessment of performances of various criteria that move beyond classic indicators to begin to build a global evidence base for agroecology and support transformation to sustainable agricultural production and food systems.

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Foodscape: A scoping review and a research agenda for food security-related studies

Cited by 82 publications

References 147 publications

How do trendy diets emerge? An exploratory social media study on the low-carbohydrate diet in Finland

How do trendy diets emerge? An exploratory social media study on the low-carbohydrate diet in Finland

Agri-Food Land Transformations and Immigrant Farm Workers in Peri-Urban Areas of Spain and the Mediterranean

Assessing Transitions to Sustainable Agricultural and Food Systems: A Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE)

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