Ultra-processed food environments: Aligning policy beliefs from the state, market, and civil society
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Ultra-processed food environments: Aligning policy beliefs from the state, market, and civil society
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Mockshell, Jonathan
Nielsen Ritter, Thea |
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health
food access nutrition security agrifood sector-food and agricultural sector political systems |
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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.
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2023-10-20
2023-11-07T09:27:24Z 2023-11-07T09:27:24Z |
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Book Chapter
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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 |
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en
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CC-BY-NC-4.0
Open Access |
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p. 155-183
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Oxford University Press
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