Ultra-processed food environments: Aligning policy beliefs from the state, market, and civil society
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...
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| 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. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1327902025-11-06T03:56:29Z Ultra-processed food environments: Aligning policy beliefs from the state, market, and civil society Mockshell, Jonathan Ritter, Thea Nielsen health food access nutrition security agrifood sector political systems 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. 2023-10-16 2023-11-07T09:27:24Z 2023-11-07T09:27:24Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132790 en https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198882121.001.0001 Open Access application/pdf Oxford University Press International Food Policy Research Institute Mockshell, Jonathan; and Ritter, Thea Nielsen. 2023. Ultra-processed food environments: Aligning policy beliefs from the state, market, and civil society. In The Political Economy of Food System Transformation: Pathways to Progress in a Polarized World, eds. Danielle Resnick and Johan Swinnen. Chapter 7, Pp. 155-183. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198882121.003.0007. |
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| title | Ultra-processed food environments: Aligning policy beliefs from the state, market, and civil society |
| title_full | Ultra-processed food environments: Aligning policy beliefs from the state, market, and civil society |
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| title_short | Ultra-processed food environments: Aligning policy beliefs from the state, market, and civil society |
| title_sort | ultra processed food environments aligning policy beliefs from the state market and civil society |
| topic | health food access nutrition security agrifood sector political systems |
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