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Food Policy: Integrating health, environment and society
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  • Food Policy: Integrating health, environment and society
  • Written by author Tim Lang
  • Published by Oxford University Press, USA, December 2008
  • 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 heal
  • 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 an
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Preface vii

Acknowledgments xi

Abbreviations xiii

1 Introduction and themes 1

The perspective 1

Cross-cutting themes 8

Outline of the chapter structure 16

2 Defining food policy 21

Charting the terrain of food policy 21

Disciplinary traditions 23

Four phases in the evolution of modern food policy 27

Turning the fundamentals of ecological public health into goals for food policy 46

The emerging agenda 52

3 Public policy and governance 65

Analysing public policy: some key definitions, concepts and relationships 66

Power relationships and public policy 69

The state, governance and policy networks 75

Food governance 77

Multi-level governance of food policy 82

Food policy change 95

4 Nutrition 101

Why nutrition matters 102

Three nutritions: life science, social, and ecological 116

Policy responses to nutrition evidence 121

Nutrition institutions and champions 129

5 The supply chain 143

The structure of modern food-supply chains 145

National policies within an international policy context 149

Strategic problems arising for ecological public health 157

Power, concentration and control 164

Are supply chains addressing ecological public health? 175

6 The environment and ecosystems 187

The problem 187

The impacts of our food supply on the environment and the ecological constraints 189

Reframing environmental policy and food 200

Policy and governance responses to food, the environment, and ecosystems 207

7 Behaviour and culture 223

Food as culture 225

Food culture: a contentious concept? 228

Culture, cuisine and food as metaphors 230

Food as morality and control 232

What is in a meal? 235

Culturalspeed-up or lock-in? 237

Domestic labour in preparation and cooking 242

Multiple meanings: where are food cultures headed? 243

8 Inequality, poverty and social justice 253

What's the problem? 254

How to measure food poverty? 258

Solutions: who should do what? 266

Food movements and food democracy 278

9 On what terms ecological public health? 297

Tectonic plates shifting 297

Accountability: the political issue 304

Index 307


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