Corporate Responsibility in a Transitioning Food Environment: Truth-Seeking and Truth-Telling

Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) are established to document violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in post-conflict societies. The intent is to excavate the truth to avoid political speculations and create an understanding of the nature of the conflict. The documentation hence results in a common narrative which aims to facilitate reconciliation to avoid regression to conflict. TRCs therefore do a tremendous job and create compound documentation that includes written statements, interviews, live public testimonies of witnesses and they also publish final reports based on the accumulated materials. At the end of their mission, TRCs recommend the optimal use of their documentation since it is of paramount importance to the reconciliation process. Despite this ambition, the TRCs’ documentation is often politicized and out of reach for the victims and the post-conflict societies at large. The TRCs’ documentation is instead poorly diffused into the post conflict societies and their findings are not effectively disseminated and used.

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The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and Its Campaign against Marketing Infant Formula in the Third World

Social Problems ◽

10.1525/sp.1984.32.2.03a00080 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 32 (2) ◽

pp. 185-196 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

M. David Ermann ◽

William H. Clements II

Keyword(s):

Infant Formula ◽

Corporate Responsibility ◽

Third World ◽

The Third ◽

The Third World

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Takeaway food outlets around secondary schools in the UK: Using different methods for evaluating the takeaway food environment

Obesity Abstracts ◽

10.1530/obabs.01.p23 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Ayyoub K Taher ◽

Charlotte EL Evans ◽

Graham P Clarke

Keyword(s):

Secondary Schools ◽

Food Environment ◽

Food Outlets ◽

The Uk

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Food procurement in English-language Canadian public schools: Opportunities and challenges

Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l alimentation ◽

10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i1.265 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 75-99

Author(s):

Shawna Holmes

Keyword(s):

Public Schools ◽

Food Environment ◽

Nutritional Quality ◽

English Language ◽

Nutrient Content ◽

Food Environments ◽

School Food ◽

Provincial Level ◽

School Food Environment

This paper examines the changes to procurement for school food environments in Canada as a response to changes to nutrition regulations at the provincial level. Interviews with those working in school food environments across Canada revealed how changes to the nutrition requirements of foods and beverages sold in schools presented opportunities to not only improve the nutrient content of the items made available in school food environments, but also to include local producers and/or school gardens in procuring for the school food environment. At the same time, some schools struggle to procure nutritionally compliant foods due to increased costs associated with transporting produce to rural, remote, or northern communities as well as logistic difficulties like spoilage. Although the nutrition regulations have facilitated improvements to food environments in some schools, others require more support to improve the overall nutritional quality of the foods and beverages available to students at school.

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