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Food Policy - Integrating health, environment and society (Paperback)
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Food Policy - Integrating health, environment and society (Paperback)
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For over half a century, food policy has mapped a path for progress
based upon a belief that the right mix of investment, scientific
input, and human skills could unleash a surge in productive
capacity which would resolve humanity's food-related health and
welfare problems. It assumed that more food would yield greater
health and happiness by driving down prices, increasing
availability, and feeding more mouths. In the 21st century, this
policy mix is quietly becoming unstuck. In a world marred by
obesity alongside malnutrition, climate change alongside fuel and
energy crises, water stress alongside more mouths to feed, and
social inequalities alongside unprecedented accumulation of wealth,
the old rubric of food policy needs re-evaluation. This book
explores the enormity of what the new policy mix must address,
taking the approach that food policy must be inextricably linked
with public with public health, environmental damage, and social
inequalities to be effective.
Written by three authors with differing backgrounds, one in
political science, another in environmental health and health
promotion, and the third in social psychology, this book reflects
the myriad of perspectives essential to a comprehensive view of
modern food policy. It attempts to make sense of what is meant by
food policy; explores whether the term has any currency in current
policy discourse, assesses whether current policies help or hinder
what happens; judges whether consensus can triumph in the face of
competing bids for understanding; looks at all levels of
governance, across the range of actors in the food system, from
companies and the state to civil society and science; considers
what direction food policies are taking, not jsut in the UK, but
internationally; assesse who (and what) gains or loses in the
making of these food policies; and identifies a modern framework
for judging how good or limited processes of policy making are.
This book provides a major comprehensive review of current and past
food policy, thinking and proposing the need for what the authors
call an ecological public health approach to food policy. Nothing
less will be fit for the 21st century.
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