Towards Building Comprehensive Legal Frameworks for Corporate Accountability in Food Governance

Dorado, Daniel; Monsalve, Sofía; Naik, Ashka; Suárez, Ana María

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“…Indeed, the significance of Article 5.3 norms in articulating a fundamental conflict of interest and a commitment to reducing industry interference in policy making helps to explain its status among policy communities seeking to regulate other commercial determinants of health. Notwithstanding the generally poor track record of implementation, equivalents to Article 5.3 are seen as essential to progress in alcohol, food systems and nutrition, fossil fuels, and gambling 39–44. Yet, in many respects, Article 5.3 is a rather less developed policy instrument than other approaches to managing engagement with the commercial sector.…”

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Norms, rules and policy tools: understanding Article 5.3 as an instrument of tobacco control governance

Ralston

Hirpa

Bassi³

et al. 2022

Tob Control

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IntroductionArticle 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, elaborated via its implementation guidelines, can be understood as a policy instrument comprising norms, rules and policy tools designed to shape practices of policy making and minimise tobacco industry interference.MethodsThis qualitative research is based on in-depth interviews with officials from diverse government sectors and non-governmental organisations across countries (Ethiopia, India, Uganda) that have adopted measures to implement Article 5.3.ResultsThe data highlight varied perceptions and knowledge of Article 5.3 norms between health and non-health sectors. Health officials typically link its core norm of a fundamental conflict between public health and industry interests to the governance norm of protecting public health policies from industry interference. While officials in sectors beyond health broadly endorsed this core norm, they exhibited more limited awareness of Article 5.3 and its model of governance. The results examine how rules to implement Article 5.3 have been codified, but identify the absence of policy tools necessary to operationalise rules and norms. This limitation, alongside restricted awareness beyond health departments, suggests that political commitments to implement Article 5.3 will have limited impact on practices of stakeholder consultation and policy engagement with the tobacco industry.ConclusionConceptualising Article 5.3 as a policy instrument helps to explain how its rules and policy tools interact with each other and with broader governance processes. This framework has the potential to enhance understanding of Article 5.3 and help identify opportunities and constraints in its implementation.

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confidence: 99%

Norms, rules and policy tools: understanding Article 5.3 as an instrument of tobacco control governance

Ralston

Hirpa

Bassi³

et al. 2022

Tob Control

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“…More than a dozen different terms have been used to describe food systems governance in the published and grey literature that vary based on the actors, context, geography, scale, level, and type of governance processes that influence diets and agri-food systems. These terms include food, nutrition, and/or food systems governance [21,[32][33][34][35]; food safety governance [36]; food security governance [37]; aquaculture governance [38]; agri-food chain and agroecosystems governance [39]; sustainability governance for food systems [40]; and private or corporate food governance [17,[41][42][43]. Many UN system and grey literature sources described aspirational principles to transform food systems, such as collaborative shared governance [44], inclusive food systems and rights-based governance [45][46][47][48], good governance [49,50], responsible governance [51], regulatory and accountable governance [52], and transformative food governance [53].…”

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A Scoping Review of Food Systems Governance Frameworks and Models to Develop a Typology for Social Change Movements to Transform Food Systems for People and Planetary Health

Kraak,

Niewolny

2024

Sustainability

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Effective governance is essential to transform food systems and achieve the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals 2030. Different political ideologies and paradigms inhibit or drive social change movements. This study examined how food systems governance has been described. Thereafter, we reviewed graphic frameworks and models to develop a typology for civil society actors to catalyze social change movements to transform food systems for people and the planet. The scoping review involved (1) formulating research questions; (2) developing a search strategy to identify evidence from four English-language electronic databases and reports, 2010–2023; and (3–4) selecting, analyzing, and synthesizing evidence into a narrative review. Results yielded 5715 records, and 36 sources were selected that described and depicted graphic frameworks and models examined for purpose, scale, political ideology, paradigm, discourse, principles, governance, and democracy. Evidence was used to develop a graphic food systems governance typology with distinct political ideologies (i.e., neoliberal, reformist, progressive, radical); paradigms (i.e., maintain, reform, transition, transform); discourses (i.e., food enterprise, food security, food justice, food sovereignty); types of governance (i.e., multistakeholder, shared, self); and democracy (i.e., representative, participatory, deliberative). This proof-of-concept typology could be applied to examine how change agents use advocacy and activism to strengthen governance for sustainable diets, regenerative food systems, and planetary health.

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“…Globally, civil society action continues to advance demands for CoI measures across diverse fora where the food industry engagement has been rampant and risking compromising public policy outcomes (Harris et al 2022). Civil society organizations have also called for a comprehensive legal framework for corporate accountability in food governance, critiquing the FAO (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization) strategy for engagement with corporations (Dorado et al 2021).…”

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A discussion of stronger public policies to protect and promote healthy diets: what can the U.S. learn from other countries?

Mialon¹,

Naik²

2023

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The aim of this paper is to contribute to global discussion on public health policies for protecting and promoting healthy diets, as it is advancing in the U.S. This discussion assesses specific cases of successful policy making from several countries across the world, often against industry resistance. We discuss five key public policies and interventions: i) food labeling; ii) marketing restrictions and healthy school food policies; iii) fiscal policies; iv) models for classifying the (un)healthiness of a product; v) interventions to address food industry influence and conflicts of interest in public health policy. The paper also argues how the U.S can adapt or adopt some of these public policies, while also preparing for the challenges from the ultra-processed food industry that may perceive these advances as threats to its business. We conclude the discussion by postulating that the U.S. is primed to advance several of these initiatives that have already been espoused in law and evaluated to be effective in other countries. The U.S. will have unique challenges, as many of the food industry actors have deep political influence on American politics and markets, although these global lessons can enable the legislative, policy, and civil society ecosystems with additional tools and strategies to progress policy movement toward defending people’s health and wellbeing over industry’s influence and profit.

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Towards Building Comprehensive Legal Frameworks for Corporate Accountability in Food Governance

Cited by 4 publications

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Norms, rules and policy tools: understanding Article 5.3 as an instrument of tobacco control governance

Norms, rules and policy tools: understanding Article 5.3 as an instrument of tobacco control governance

A Scoping Review of Food Systems Governance Frameworks and Models to Develop a Typology for Social Change Movements to Transform Food Systems for People and Planetary Health

A discussion of stronger public policies to protect and promote healthy diets: what can the U.S. learn from other countries?

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