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. 

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.

Food and Public Health

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Dietary Guidelines ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Health History ◽  
Global Food

Food and Public Health is an easy to read text that helps students understand the history of modern issues in public health nutrition and health promotion. The book’s chapters include practical real-world applications and cases, which serve as examples for extension activities. For instructors, the text offers discussion and writing prompts for each chapter, as well as sample quiz questions. In its 12 chapters, the book covers more than one hundred years of food and public health history including the development of the dietary guidelines, current applications of health behavior theory, approaches to health promotion and disease prevention including food policy, new challenges in curbing food marketing to kids, obesogenic environments, and best practices in chronic disease prevention. Food insecurity is a concept discussed throughout the book with an emphasis on resultant public health problems of both hunger and obesity. The text encourages reflections on global food issues, such as how food, culture, and food insecurity intersect in a global food system.

“Food Miles” and the Politics of Localism

Transfers ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-138
Author(s):  
Louise Nelson Dyble
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
North American ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Energy ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
The North ◽  
Food Miles ◽  
Edward Elgar

David Pimentel and Marcia Pimentel, Food, Energy and Society, 3rd ed. (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2008), xix + 380 pp.James E. McWilliams, Just Food: Where Locavores Get it Wrong and How We can Truly Eat Responsibly (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009), 258 pp., Pb US$14.99.C. Claire Hinrichs and Thomas A. Lyson, eds., Remaking the North American Food System: Strategies for Sustainability (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 384 pp., Hb US$45.00, Pb US$29.95.David Burch and Geoffrey Lawrence, eds., Supermarkets and Agri-food Supply Chains (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2007), xiv + 330 pp.

scholarly journals Food Policy Council Case Study Describing Cross-sector Collaboration for Food System Change in a Rural Setting

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-447
Author(s):  
Larissa Calancie ◽  
Nathaniel Stritzinger ◽  
Jaclyn Konich ◽  
Camille Horton ◽  
Nicole E. Allen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food System ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
System Change ◽  
Rural Setting ◽  
Food Policy Council

scholarly journals Paqueteros and Paqueteras

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-37
Author(s):  
Alyshia Gálvez
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
The North ◽  
The Us ◽  
Governmental Support ◽  
Ethnographic Data

In this article, I argue that paqueteros and paqueteras humanize an increasingly dehumanized food system, connecting people and places culturally who are divided by borders and food policy. Their activities constitute an important, while underacknowledged link between migrant communities and the places they came from, largely operating informally and without governmental support, although not without official scrutiny. Building on two decades of ethnographic data, I explore the practices and significance of paquetería, informal package deliveries, in the context of US-Mexico food policy after the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA, recently renamed the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement) and an increasingly globalized food system that systematically marginalizes and excludes human-scaled food production, processing, distribution, and consumption in favor of industrialized, corporate food.

Eating NAFTA

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyshia Gálvez
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Food System ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The North ◽  
The World

In the two decades since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect, Mexico has seen an epidemic of diet-related illness. While globalization has been associated with an increase in chronic disease around the world, in Mexico, the speed and scope of the rise has been called a public health emergency. The shift in Mexican foodways is happening at a moment when the country’s ancestral cuisine is now more popular and appreciated around the world than ever. What does it mean for their health and well-being when many Mexicans eat fewer tortillas and more instant noodles, while global elites demand tacos made with handmade corn tortillas? This book examines the transformation of the Mexican food system since NAFTA and how it has made it harder for people to eat as they once did. The book contextualizes NAFTA within Mexico’s approach to economic development since the Revolution, noticing the role envisioned for rural and low-income people in the path to modernization. Examination of anti-poverty and public health policies in Mexico reveal how it has become easier for people to consume processed foods and beverages, even when to do so can be harmful to health. The book critiques Mexico’s strategy for addressing the public health crisis generated by rising rates of chronic disease for blaming the dietary habits of those whose lives have been upended by the economic and political shifts of NAFTA.

Political orientation and moral foundations

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (11) ◽  
pp. 365-371
Author(s):  
J Dorasamy ◽  
Mr Jirushlan Dorasamy
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
North America ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Open Approach ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Moral Foundation ◽  
The North

Studies, especially in the North America, have shown a relationship between political orientation and moralfoundation. This study investigated whether moral judgements differ from the political orientation of participantsin South Africa moral judgment and the extent to which moral foundations are influenced by politicalorientation.Further, the study investigated the possibility of similar patterns with the North AmericanConservative-Liberal spectrum and the moral foundation. There were 300participants, 78 males and 222 females,who completed an online questionnaire relating to moral foundation and political orientation. The results partiallysupported the hypothesis relating to Liberal and Conservative orientation in South Africa. Further, this studypartially predicted the Liberal-Conservative orientation with patterns in the moral foundation, whilst showingsimilar findings to the North American studies. A growing rate of a neutral/moderate society is evidenced in SouthAfrica and abroad, thereby showing the emergence of a more open approach to both a political and generalstance.”””

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