Food Policy Council Movement in North America: A Convergence of Alternative Local Agrifood Interests?

2014 ◽  
pp. 229-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick H. Mooney ◽  
Keiko Tanaka ◽  
Gabriele Ciciurkaite
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Food Policy Council

scholarly journals FOOD POLICY COUNCIL AS CIVIC ENGAGEMENT FOR FOOD ISSUES

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Masashi Tachikawa
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Structural Aspect ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Geographical Differences ◽  
American Experience ◽  
The North ◽  
Food Miles ◽  
Food Policy Council

The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the nature of food issue in our society and propose a forum to discuss multi-facet issues of food based on the North American experience, such as food policy council (FPC). Contemporary food system in Japan is full of problems, such as low level self-sufficiency, food loss, problem of food access, large food miles, declining food culture under globalization, and so on. After reviewing these food related issues, the paper refers to the US and Canadian experiences on food policy council as a model to provide a forum for various stakeholders with different or even conflicting interests. Based on observations on the FPCs, such as Knoxville (US) and Toronto (Canada), author emphasized public aspect of food issues and draw attentions to differences in structural aspects of food between North America and Japan. The paper also tries to draw attention to differences between North America and Japan in terms of food issues. In particular, the demographic and geographical differences would exist of a major structural aspect when considering food issue in Japan. 

scholarly journals New England Food Policy Council Survey Results

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathryn A. Porter ◽  
Catherine M. Ashcraft
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Food Policy Council ◽  
Survey Results

scholarly journals The Role of Partnerships in U.S. Food Policy Council Policy Activities

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. e0122870 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan L. Clayton ◽  
Shannon Frattaroli ◽  
Anne Palmer ◽  
Keshia M. Pollack
Keyword(s):  
Food Policy ◽  
Food Policy Council

scholarly journals Finding Our Way to Food Democracy: Lessons from US Food Policy Council Governance

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 32-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Bassarab ◽  
Jill K. Clark ◽  
Raychel Santo ◽  
Anne Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Food Policy Council ◽  
Structure Relationship ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Food Democracy

Food policy councils (FPCs) are an embodiment of food democracy, providing a space for community members, professionals, and government to learn together, deliberate, and collectively devise place-based strategies to address complex food systems issues. These collaborative governance networks can be considered a transitional stage in the democratic process, an intermediary institution that coordinates interests not typically present in food policymaking. In practice, FPCs are complex and varied. Due to this variety, it is not entirely clear how the structure, membership, and relationship to government of an FPC influence its policy priorities. This article will examine the relationship between an FPC’s organizational structure, relationship to government, and membership and its policy priorities. Using data from a 2018 survey of FPCs in the United States by the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future paired with illustrative cases, we find that an FPC’s relationship to government and membership have more bearing on its policy priorities than the organizational structure. Further, the cases illustrate how membership is determined and deliberation occurs, highlighting the difficulty of including underrepresented voices in the process.

Drawing on the Past toward a Food Sovereign Future

2018 ◽  
pp. 117-140
Author(s):  
Monica M. White
Keyword(s):  
White Supremacy ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
City Government ◽  
Collective Agency ◽  
Community Food Security ◽  
Food Policy Council ◽  
Prefigurative Politics ◽  
Security Network

Whereas previous chapters discussed strategies employed by those who stayed in the South, this chapter tells the stories of the descendants of those who migrated north, focusing on Detroit. While far in time and space from the other examples of Black agricultural resistance discussed in this book, contemporary communities in Detroit are similarly turning to agriculture as a strategy of survival and resistance. The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN) formed in 2006, setting goals of improving education, food access, and collective buying. DBCFSN is rooted in a pan-African philosophy of pride and solidarity and draws from founders’ experiences in Detroit’s Black Power era and in city government. Central to DBCFSN’s approach to community food sovereignty are antiracist and anticapitalist principles that guide cooperative efforts, political education, and organizing designed to dismantle systems of white supremacy embedded in the food system. DBCFSN’s most well-known projects – the Detroit Food Policy Council, D-Town Farm, and the Ujamaa Food Buying Club – enact the strategies of prefigurative politics, economic autonomy, and commons as praxis to build collective agency and community resilience.

Assemblage, food justice, and intersectionality in rural Mississippi: the Oktibbeha Food Policy Council

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 381-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Thompson ◽  
Kecia R. Johnson ◽  
Kenya M. Cistrunk ◽  
Ashley Vancil-Leap ◽  
Thomas Nyatta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Policy ◽  
Food Justice ◽  
Food Policy Council

scholarly journals Consumers and Food Policy in North America

1978 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 777-781
Author(s):  
Carol Tucker Foreman
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Food Policy

scholarly journals Integrating sustainability into the multi-criteria assessment of urban dietary patterns

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose-Maria Garcia-Alvarez-Coque ◽  
Ola Abdullateef ◽  
Loreto Fenollosa ◽  
Javier Ribal ◽  
Neus Sanjuan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Vegan Diet ◽  
Local Production ◽  
Economic Perspective ◽  
Sustainable Diets ◽  
Food Policy Council ◽  
Diet Pattern ◽  
Decision Elements ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Abstract This study develops a decision-making procedure to help policymakers compare alternative patterns for sustainable diets by reaching a compromise among three criteria: socio-economic perspective, health and environment (including carbon and water footprints). An Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) was performed in several stages. First, a total of 25 stakeholders (members of organizations on the Valencia Food Policy Council) evaluated criteria that are relevant to the sustainability of diets. Secondly, a workshop with 14 experts from different backgrounds evaluated by consensus four dietary alternatives: Mediterranean, flexitarian, pescatarian and vegan. In terms of environment, experts gave priority to the vegan diet. However, the Mediterranean diet pattern (MDP) appeared, according to the process, as the most suitable pattern from the holistic perspective that integrates all relevant criteria. The MDP was ranked first in terms of the health criterion and the socio-economic perspective. These include culture, affordability, social impact and local production as decision elements that food policy advisory bodies take into consideration to define sustainable diets.

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