Asymmetric power in global food system advocacy
Food systems policy has multiple legitimate aims, and different policy actors hold different values, beliefs, and interests around these issues. In low-income countries, global narratives and non-national coalitions regularly intervene in food policy processes, and they exert influence due to histor...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| description | Food systems policy has multiple legitimate aims, and different policy actors hold different values, beliefs, and interests around these issues. In low-income countries, global narratives and non-national coalitions regularly intervene in food policy processes, and they exert influence due to historical and current power relations. There are significant questions, however, about the implications and legitimacy of this international intervention into national food policies. Focusing on Zambia, this chapter finds that internationally formulated ideas are increasingly evident over time in food policy, transferred to national policy through the normative promotion of certain ways of understanding the issue of malnutrition. With its focus on multi-sectoral action to reduce stunting, the recent nutrition policy narrative impinges directly on an existing food security narrative by attempting to alter agriculture policy away from maize reliance. The nutrition policy sub-system in Zambia is therefore split, with implications for both sides on progressing a coherent policy agenda. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1400642025-11-06T04:01:50Z Asymmetric power in global food system advocacy Harris, Jody sustainable development goals advocacy coalitions policies food policies nutrition policies agricultural policies reforms nutrition advocacy food systems governance Food systems policy has multiple legitimate aims, and different policy actors hold different values, beliefs, and interests around these issues. In low-income countries, global narratives and non-national coalitions regularly intervene in food policy processes, and they exert influence due to historical and current power relations. There are significant questions, however, about the implications and legitimacy of this international intervention into national food policies. Focusing on Zambia, this chapter finds that internationally formulated ideas are increasingly evident over time in food policy, transferred to national policy through the normative promotion of certain ways of understanding the issue of malnutrition. With its focus on multi-sectoral action to reduce stunting, the recent nutrition policy narrative impinges directly on an existing food security narrative by attempting to alter agriculture policy away from maize reliance. The nutrition policy sub-system in Zambia is therefore split, with implications for both sides on progressing a coherent policy agenda. 2023-10-16 2024-03-14T12:08:52Z 2024-03-14T12:08:52Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140064 en https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198882121.001.0001 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Oxford University Press Harris, Jody. 2023. Asymmetric power in global food system advocacy. In The Political Economy of Food System Transformation: Pathways to Progress in a Polarized World, eds. Danielle Resnick and Johan Swinnen. Chapter 8, Pp. 184-205. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198882121.003.0008. |
| spellingShingle | sustainable development goals advocacy coalitions policies food policies nutrition policies agricultural policies reforms nutrition advocacy food systems governance Harris, Jody Asymmetric power in global food system advocacy |
| title | Asymmetric power in global food system advocacy |
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| title_short | Asymmetric power in global food system advocacy |
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| topic | sustainable development goals advocacy coalitions policies food policies nutrition policies agricultural policies reforms nutrition advocacy food systems governance |
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