Food policy poses special challenges to public policy. Key features of the contemporary food system, sometimes, to the detriment of health outcomes, are a focus on profits as a primary driver, value-adding, brand image, market share and “efficiency”. Meanwhile in political discourses, health issues are often combined or confounded with safety, rather than recognized as specific population-based indicators. Con icting policies are common, particularly...
Selasa, 30 Agustus 2011
Rabu, 24 Agustus 2011
Food inequalities
Many health disparities are the result of differences in diet availability and intake. History suggests that food insecurity is not inevitable and that maldistribution of food is a classic illustration of the social determination of health. In both war and peace, equitable public policy can decrease...
Selasa, 16 Agustus 2011
Sustainable consumption: constraint on consumerism?
Over the last decades of the 20th century evidence mounted about the deleterious effect of contemporary food and agricultural policies. These include:• pollution and chemical contamination from pesticide (over-)use (Conway and Pretty, 1991);• falling water tables from over-irrigation and intensive crop...
Sabtu, 06 Agustus 2011
Food governance
Since the 1994 GATT, the developing world has fractured with some developing countries benefiting, while others do not. Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, has been a net loser. Dissent about the new global institutions of governance symbolized by the GATT’s creation of the World Trade Organization surfaced...
