Merging Opposing Viewpoints: Analysis of the Development of a Statewide Sustainable Local Food Advisory Council in a Traditional Agricultural State

Marco, Molly De; Chapman, Leah Elizabeth; McGee, Cordon; Calancie, Larissa; Burnham, Lauren; Ammerman, Alice S.

doi:10.5304/jafscd.2017.073.018

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“…In fact, many multi-stakeholder mechanisms (that involved actors from the public, private, and civil society realms), aiming at improving the governance of local and city-region food systems, have been analyzed in the literature. These multi-stakeholder groups include food (policy) councils [274,368,[377][378][379][380][381][382], networks [281,344,383], and partnerships [384,385]. The innovative governance mechanisms allow increasing the participation and inclusion of stakeholders in managing food systems, thus democratizing it [261,262,268,[270][271][272][273][274][275][276].…”

Section: Policy and Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Agri-Food Systems: Environment, Economy, Society, and Policy

2021

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Agri-food systems (AFS) have been central in the debate on sustainable development. Despite this growing interest in AFS, comprehensive analyses of the scholarly literature are hard to find. Therefore, the present systematic review delineated the contours of this growing research strand and analyzed how it relates to sustainability. A search performed on the Web of Science in January 2020 yielded 1389 documents, and 1289 were selected and underwent bibliometric and topical analyses. The topical analysis was informed by the SAFA (Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture systems) approach of FAO and structured along four dimensions viz. environment, economy, society and culture, and policy and governance. The review shows an increasing interest in AFS with an exponential increase in publications number. However, the study field is north-biased and dominated by researchers and organizations from developed countries. Moreover, the analysis suggests that while environmental aspects are sufficiently addressed, social, economic, and political ones are generally overlooked. The paper ends by providing directions for future research and listing some topics to be integrated into a comprehensive, multidisciplinary agenda addressing the multifaceted (un)sustainability of AFS. It makes the case for adopting a holistic, 4-P (planet, people, profit, policy) approach in agri-food system studies.

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Section: Policy and Governancementioning

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Sustainable Agri-Food Systems: Environment, Economy, Society, and Policy

2021

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“…Packer (2014) argues that, when combined, these limitations can lead to an "alienating form of 'participation'" (p. 10) that appeals to a specific group of individuals and limits the FPG's ability to represent the community, therefore decreasing its impact. Overall, ensuring FPGs have a diverse membership has been identified as a significant contribution to their success (Clancy et al, 2008;De Marco et al, 2017;Dharmawan, 2015;Schiff, 2008).…”

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“…FPGs also benefit from diverse extra-organizational partnerships (De Marco et al, 2017;Ilieva, 2016). Building strong relationships within existing networks and with groups beyond those networks has multiple benefits.…”

Section: Building Network and Integrating Across Sectorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping Food Policy Groups

Levkoe

Schiff²,

Arnold³

et al. 2021

CanFoodStudies

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Over the past decades, there has been a rapid expansion in the number of Food Policy Groups (FPG) (including food policy councils, strategies, networks, and informal alliances) operating at municipal and regional levels across North America. FPGs are typically established with the intent of bringing together food systems stakeholders across private (e.g., small businesses, industry associations), public (e.g., government, public health, postsecondary institutions), and community (e.g., non-profits and charitable organizations) sectors to develop participatory governance mechanisms. Recognizing that food systems challenges are too often addressed in isolation, FPGs aim to instill integrated approaches to food related policy, programs, and planning. Despite growing interest, there is little quantitative or mixed methods research about the relationships that constitute FPGs or the degree to which they achieve cross-sectoral integration. Turning to Social Network Analysis (SNA) as an approach for understanding networked organizational relationships, we explore how SNA might contribute to a better understanding of FPGs. This paper presents results from a study of the Thunder Bay and Area Food Strategy (TBAFS), a FPG established in 2007 when an informal network of diverse organizations came together around shared goals of ensuring that municipal policy and governance supported healthy, equitable and sustainable food systems in the Thunder Bay region in Ontario, Canada. Drawing on data from a survey of TBAFS organizational members, we suggest that SNA can improve our understanding of the networks formed by FPGs and enhance their goals of cross-sectoral integration.

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Food Policy Councils: A 20—Year Scoping Review (1999–2019)

Schiff

Levkoe

Wilkinson

2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The proliferation of food policy councils (FPCs) in the past two decades has been accompanied by increasing academic interest and a growing number of research studies. Given the rapid interest and growth in the number of FPCs, their expanding geographic distribution, and the research on their activities, there is a need to assess the current state of knowledge on FPCs, gaps in that knowledge, and directions for future research. To address this need, we undertook a scoping review of the scholarly literature published on FPCs over the past two decades. The review identified four main themes in the FPC research—(1) Activities of FPCs; (2) Organizational dimensions; (3) Challenges; and, (4) Facilitators. We also note a significant sub-theme related to equity and diversity, race and class representation in FPCs. These themes frame a growing body of knowledge on FPCs along with key gaps in the current body of literature, which may help to direct research on these organizations for those interested in approaches to food systems change and cross-sectoral collaborative approaches to social-ecological governance.

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Merging Opposing Viewpoints: Analysis of the Development of a Statewide Sustainable Local Food Advisory Council in a Traditional Agricultural State

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Sustainable Agri-Food Systems: Environment, Economy, Society, and Policy

Sustainable Agri-Food Systems: Environment, Economy, Society, and Policy

Mapping Food Policy Groups

Food Policy Councils: A 20—Year Scoping Review (1999–2019)

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