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Ultra-processed food environments: Aligning policy beliefs from the state, market, and civil society

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Title Ultra-processed food environments: Aligning policy beliefs from the state, market, and civil society
 
Creator Mockshell, Jonathan
Nielsen Ritter, Thea
 
Subject health
food access
nutrition security
agrifood sector-food and agricultural sector
political systems
 
Description Why is finding solutions to combat the increasing access to affordable ultra-processed foods so controversial and what strategies are necessary for policy change? Beyond the existing rational choice answers to this question, this chapter applies a political economy analysis of coalitions and policy beliefs in the ultra-processed food environment in a developing economy context. By combining the Advocacy Coalition Framework with the discourse analysis approach and factor analysis to a case study in Ghana, the chapter reveals a trichotomy of coalitions in the food environment, consisting of state, market, and civil society actors. The discourses reveal shared policy beliefs on the need for more regulation; independent beliefs on production incentives; and divergent beliefs on public awareness. The evidence highlights entry points for policy-oriented learning and policy change, including subsidies to support access to healthy foods, a prohibitive tax on ultra-processed foods, voluntary regulations, labelling and advertisement bans, and regulations.
 
Date 2023-10-20
2023-11-07T09:27:24Z
2023-11-07T09:27:24Z
 
Type Book Chapter
 
Identifier Mockshell, J.; Nielsen Ritter, T. (2023) Ultra-processed food environments: Aligning policy beliefs from the state, market, and civil society. In: Danielle Resnick (ed.), Johan Swinnen (ed.) The Political Economy of Food System Transformation: Pathways to Progress in a Polarized World. Oxford University Press p. 155-183. ISBN: 9780198882121
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132790
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198882121.003.0007
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
Open Access
 
Format p. 155-183
application/pdf
 
Publisher Oxford University Press