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‘Sustainability does not quite get the attention it deserves’: synergies and tensions in the sustainability frames of Australian food policy actors
- Source :
- Public Health Nutr
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014.
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Abstract
- ObjectiveThe development of food policy is strongly influenced by the understanding and position actors adopt in their ‘framing’ of sustainability. The Australian Government developed a National Food Plan (2010–2013). In public consultations on the National Food Plan Green Paper, the government sought stakeholders’ views on sustainability. The present study examined the way in which the food industry and civil society organizations framed sustainability in their submissions to the Green Paper.DesignSubmissions by food industry actors and civil society organizations were analysed using a framing matrix that examined positioning, drivers, underlying principles and policy solutions related to sustainability. Submissions were open coded and subsequently organized based on themes within the framing matrix.SettingAustralia.SubjectsOne hundred and twenty-four written submissions (1420 pages).ResultsWhile submissions from industry and civil society organizations often framed sustainability similarly, there were also major differences. Civil society organizations were more likely to make the link between the food supply and population health, while industry was more likely to focus on economic sustainability. Both viewed consumer demand as a driver of sustainability, welcomed the idea of a whole-of-government approach and stressed the need for investment in research and development to improve productivity and sustainable farming practices.ConclusionsThe meaning of sustainability shifted throughout the policy process. There are opportunities for creating shared value in food policy, where the health, environment and economic dimensions of sustainability can be compatible. However, despite pockets of optimism there is a need for a shared vision of sustainability if Australia is to have a food policy integrating these dimensions.
- Subjects :
- Societies, Scientific
Conservation of Natural Resources
Civil society
Social sustainability
Systems Theory
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Guidelines as Topic
Public-Private Sector Partnerships
Food Supply
Nutrition Policy
Animals
Humans
Food-Processing Industry
Sustainability organizations
Consumer Advocacy
Nutrition and Dietetics
business.industry
Green paper
Australia
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Agriculture
Consumer Behavior
Public relations
Research Papers
language.human_language
Diet
Environmental Policy
Models, Economic
Framing (social sciences)
Sustainability
Food policy
language
Food systems
business
Program Evaluation
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14752727 and 13689800
- Volume :
- 18
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Public Health Nutrition
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2eb0d4a471c71d91bd27ee2119200a69