Abstract
The article considers how policy can address the local–global within a wider commitment to food sustainability and draws on research conducted for the EU-funded GLAMUR project (Global and local food assessment: a multidimensional performance-based approach). Case study data identifies four key policy challenges for policymakers. Addressing these challenges in order to make links between current (and future) more sustainable food policy involves three phases. The first identifies processes of engagement in three spheres (public policy, the market and civil society); the second identifies points of engagement offered by existing policy initiatives at global, EU, national and sub-national policy levels; and the third builds scenarios as possible “food futures”, used to illustrate how the project’s findings could impact on the “bigger policy picture” along the local–global continuum. Connections are made between the policy frameworks, as processes and points of engagement for food policy, and the food “futures”. It is suggested that the findings can help support policymakers as they consider the effects and value of using multi-criteria interventions.
Highlights
Recognising that policy choices, preferences and/or investment decisions which improve food chain sustainability are a complex area for policy intervention, this article examines relationships between policy frameworks and more sustainable performance in local-global food chains and uses scenarios to illustrate possible “food futures”
One notable outcome of this is an emerging discourse that questions “local” and “global” distinctions in food systems. This argues that traditional assessments of sustainable food supply chain performance need updating to reflect new production and consumption patterns and new consumer concerns, with some arguing that an ecological shift is required that reveals the complexity of the food systems” real costs and benefits along the local-global continuum [2,3,4]
Such as when leverage of public food service in Denmark demonstrated how Copenhagen was able to work within the EU public procurement regulations and source local food from small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)
Summary
Recognising that policy choices, preferences and/or investment decisions which improve food chain sustainability are a complex area for policy intervention, this article examines relationships between policy frameworks and more sustainable performance in local-global food chains and uses scenarios to illustrate possible “food futures”. One notable outcome of this is an emerging discourse that questions “local” and “global” distinctions in food systems This argues that traditional assessments of sustainable food supply chain performance need updating to reflect new production and consumption patterns and new consumer concerns, with some arguing that an ecological shift is required that reveals the complexity of the food systems” real costs and benefits along the local-global continuum [2,3,4]. These analyses of multiple “dimensions” for creating more sustainable food systems are complex in themselves, they raise enormous challenges for policymakers.
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