Foreign Animal Diseases and Food System Security: Decision Making for Appropriate Responses

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barrett D. Slenning ◽  
Jimmy L. Tickel
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Food System ◽  
System Security ◽  
Animal Diseases

scholarly journals Healthy eating: a matter of prioritisation by households or policymakers?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Joreintje Dingena Mackenbach
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Food System ◽  
Vegetable Consumption ◽  
Fruit And Vegetable Consumption ◽  
Healthy Foods ◽  
Fruit And Vegetable ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Abstract I reflect upon the potential reasons why American low-income households do not spend an optimal proportion of their food budgets on fruits and vegetables, even though this would allow them to meet the recommended levels of fruit and vegetable consumption. Other priorities than health, automatic decision-making processes and access to healthy foods play a role, but solutions for the persistent socio-economic inequalities in diet should be sought in the wider food system which promotes cheap, mass-produced foods. I argue that, ultimately, healthy eating is not a matter of prioritisation by individual households but by policymakers.

scholarly journals New England food policy councils: An assessment of organizational structure, policy priorities and public participation

Elem Sci Anth ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathryn A. Porter ◽  
Catherine M. Ashcraft
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New England ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Food Justice ◽  
Common Mechanism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Food Policy Councils

Food policy councils (FPCs) are an increasingly common mechanism to improve participation in food system decision-making. Including individuals from under-represented groups can foster greater understanding of their needs and experiences with food system barriers and is an important part of food justice. However, engaging under-represented groups in food systems decision-making remains challenging for FPCs. This paper presents the results from a survey of FPCs and networks in New England to: (1) identify FPC policy priorities, (2) characterize FPCs engaged in policy initiatives based on attributes which, based on the literature, may impact effective public participation: geographic scale, organization type, capacity, policy priorities, and membership, and (3) analyze methods for engaging the public in FPC policy initiatives and demographic groups and sectors engaged. Findings indicate only half of New England FPCs work on policy efforts. Many surveyed FPCs engage multiple food system sectors and under-represented groups through a combination of different public participation opportunities. However, results indicate that New England FPCs could benefit from a greater focus on engaging under-represented audiences. FPCs interested in engaging more diverse participants should commit to a focus on food justice, strive for representative membership through intentional recruitment, and offer multiple methods to engage the public throughout policy initiatives.

scholarly journals An ecofeminist perspective on new food technologies

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Lee
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Food System ◽  
Genetically Engineered ◽  
Animal Products ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
In Vitro Meat ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Growing Population

New food technologies are touted by some to be an indispensable part of the toolkit when it comes to feeding a growing population, especially when factoring in the growing appetite for animal products. To this end, technologies like genetically engineered (GE) animals and in vitro meat are currently in various stages of research and development, with proponents claiming a myriad of justificatory benefits. However, it is important to consider not only the technical attributes and promissory possibilities of these technologies, but also the worldviews that are being imported in turn, as well as the unanticipated social and environmental consequences that could result. In addition to critiquing dominant paradigms, the inclusive, intersectional ecofeminist perspective presented here offers a different way of thinking about new food technologies, with the aim of exposing inherent biases, rejecting a view of institutions like science and law as being objective, and advancing methods and rationales for a more explicitly ethical form of decision-making. Alternative and marginalized perspectives are especially valuable in this context, because careful reflection on the range of concerns implicated by new food technologies is necessary in order to better evaluate whether or not they can contribute to the building of a more sustainable and just food system for all.

scholarly journals Global Food Security Assessment during 1961–2019

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 14005
Author(s):  
Jingpeng Guo ◽  
Kebiao Mao ◽  
Zijin Yuan ◽  
Zhihao Qin ◽  
Tongren Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food System ◽  
System Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
Climate Change Scenarios ◽  
Food Trade ◽  
Global Food Security ◽  
Global Food System ◽  
Global Food

Quantified components of the global food system are used to assess long-term global food security under a series of socio-economic, epidemic normalization and climate change scenarios. Here, we evaluate the global food security including the global farming system as well as the global food trade, reserve and loss systems from 1961 to 2019, and analyze their temporal and spatial characteristics by using the global food vulnerability (GFV) model. The spatio–temporal patterns of the vulnerability of the global food system were consistent with the GFSI. As food production and consumption vary greatly in different countries which have continued for a long time, food exports from many developed agricultural countries have compensated for food shortages in most countries (about 120 net grain-importing countries). As a result, many countries have relied heavily on food imports to maintain their domestic food supplies, ultimately causing the global food trade stability to have an increasing impact on the food security of most countries. The impact of global food trade on global food security increased from 9% to 17% during 1961–2019, which has increased the vulnerability of the global food system. The food damage in the United States, Russia, China, and India has varied significantly, and global cereal stocks have fluctuated even more since 2000. From 1961 to 2019, the food system security of some Nordic countries significantly improved, while the food system security of most African countries significantly deteriorated. Most countries with high food insecurity are located in Africa and South Asia. In order to cope with extreme events, these countries need to strengthen and improve their own food production and storage systems, which will help the World Food and Agriculture Organization to formulate relevant food policies and maintain sustainable development.

Research on Method of Government Decision-Making of Traceability System Based on Logistic Model

2013 ◽  
Vol 321-324 ◽  
pp. 3012-3016
Author(s):  
Xuan Xu ◽  
Lin Bo Xie
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Vertical Integration ◽  
Food System ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Convex Optimization Problem ◽  
Traceability System ◽  
System A ◽  
Verification Systems ◽  
Decision Making Model

Aimed at the modeling of governments public strategic decision-making, this article proposes a decision-making optimization model for the traceable food system. A welfare function of industry producers, whose parameters would be estimated by actual data gained from market survey and statistics analysis, is established based on the decision-making model in concern of mean value. Finally, the decision-making procedure is converted into a convex optimization problem, which is solved by the inner point method. Investigation shows that the optimal ratio of government subsidy to pay for the technology expenses of every unit is 0.82%, which would lead to an 11.72% increase of expected profit for the enterprise whose decision is led by the traceable system and having large productive scale and high sales prices. Thus the optimal condition can be obtained in the implementation of the traceable system. At the same time, any enterprise with a suitable vertical integration rate and owning quality verification systems will find that it is easier to establish the traceable system.

Turn climate information into value for the Mediterranean wine sector: the MED-GOLD potential

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Dell'Aquila ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
Food System ◽  
Wine Production ◽  
Climate Services ◽  
Seamless Integration ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Wine Sector ◽  
The Mediterranean

<p>MED-GOLD is an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project (https://www.med-gold.eu/) whose main objective is to demonstrate the proof-of-concept for climate services in agriculture by developing case studies for three staples of the Mediterranean food system: grapes, olives and durum wheat.</p><p>MED-GOLD will propose climate services deploying forecast information at seasonal (next 6 months) and long-term (next 30 years). This information will be provided at higher spatial resolution than what is currently available. To provide the highest value for decision-making, the services will be co-developed with professional users from each sector.</p><p>For the wine sector, the project objective is to use the most recent state-of-the-art climate models outputs to produce user-oriented predictions of essential climate variables, bioclimatic indicators  and ad-hoc implemented compound risk indices. All of these indices  are relevant for viticulture at large scales, and more specifically for the MED-GOLD focus region of the Douro valley (Portugal). The indices  will be readily available for users in the grape and wine sector under several different formats and visualizations, allowing for easy, quick and seamless integration into critical decision-making.</p><p>Timely warnings of when climate change might impose a disruptive pressure upon wine production systems offers stakeholders a chance to act proactively both at seasonal (operational campaign planning) and decadal (strategic business planning) time-scales, making the wine sector more resilient to the impacts of climate change.</p>

scholarly journals Identification and Analysis of Attributes for Industrial Food Waste Management Modelling

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Garcia-Garcia ◽  
Elliot Woolley ◽  
Shahin Rahimifard
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Food System ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Model Food ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Food And Drink

Due to the large quantities of food waste generated by manufacturers and the associated environmental impact of these waste streams, improving food waste management is vital for achieving a more sustainable food system. Management of food waste can be complex and the most appropriate methods may not always be selected. There are a range of aspects to consider in order to select the most sustainable option to manage food waste, such as the specific type of food waste generated, waste management options available, characteristics of food companies that generate food waste, features of the waste management processors that will manage it, and the sustainability implications of dealing with the food waste. To support food waste management decision making, this paper presents a modelling procedure to assist in identifying what type and range of information is needed to model food waste management systems, allowing the user to follow a systematic methodology to make more informed decisions. This procedure is based on the identification and analysis of qualitative and quantitative attributes necessary to model food waste management and an assessment of their relationships. Specifically, it describes a process to ensure that all relevant attributes are considered during the decision-making process. A case study with a large UK food and drink manufacturer is used to demonstrate the applicability and usefulness of this procedure. In conclusion, the systematic procedure presented in this paper provides a methodology to identify opportunities to improve the sustainability of industrial food waste management. The data obtained can be used to further undertake a life-cycle assessment study and/or to apply existing socio-economic methodologies to thoroughly assess impacts and benefits of food waste management.

scholarly journals How the French Nutri-Score can impact sales of processed-foods? A complex system perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
E Breton ◽  
O Ode ◽  
T Oikonomidi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Food System ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Processed Foods ◽  
System Perspective ◽  
Flow Of Information

Abstract Background Nutri-Score (NS) is France Front-of-Pack Food Labelling System to provide at-a-glance information about the nutritional quality of pre-packaged food products. Based on the Food Standards Agency nutrient profiling system, its algorithm generates a score by taking into account the presence of both the harmful and beneficial contents in food. In this presentation, we report on our analysis of the logic model of NS and on its potential impact on the production and marketing of processed foods. Methods We reviewed the scientific and grey literature on NS to identify its potential mechanisms and loci of change. We also appraised the policy against Meadow’s leverage points for system change. Results The official adoption of the NS algorithm is instrumental in modifying both consumer food-related behaviours and food industry corporate practices. The algorithm takes 3 forms: 1) the front-of-pack logo indicating an integrated colour/letter score for the product, 2) mobile device applications which help consumers assess the nutritional value of food products even without an affixed logo, 3) nutritional parameters which influence food manufacturing decision-making in the industry. NS can trigger different drivers of corporate practice. From the current uptake trends, small and medium size food manufacturers appear more likely to welcome the NS Logo as a means to stand out against the multinational corporations presently dominating the market. As for the capacity of NS to transform the existing systems of producing and marketing processed foods, we find that it is mostly by changing the flow of information. NS presents new information, previously inaccessible to consumers, to support the population in making healthier food choices by providing a means for nuanced nutritional comparisons between food products of the same category. Conclusions We conclude on the potential evolution of Nutri-Score and how its uptake by food corporations may be fostered. Key messages Nutri-Score’s impact is through: the front-of-pack logo; nutrition apps; and as a parameter of food industry decision-making. Nutri-Score impacts the flow of information of the processed-food system.

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