Food systems policy coherence: A ten-country assessment

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dc.creatorNordhagen, Stella
dc.creatorTankari, Mahamadou
dc.creatorMorrison, Jamie
dc.creatorCollins, Julie
dc.creatorParsons, Kelly
dc.creatorResnick, Danielle
dc.creatorValls Bedeau, José
dc.date2026-08
dc.date2026-06-24T19:15:32Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:24:48Z
dc.descriptionPolicy coherence is widely recognised as essential for achieving food systems transformation, but attempts to assess food systems policy coherence have been limited to date in terms of their scope of topics and geographies and lack of comparable methods. This paper introduces the Food Systems Policy Coherence (FSPC) Diagnostic Tool and uses it to analyse food systems policy coherence across 10 low- and middle-income countries in Africa and Asia through key informant interviews (n = 189) and review of policy documents (n = 808). The FSPC Diagnostic Tool considers two aspects of policy coherence: (1) the structures and mechanisms that may contribute to achieving stronger policy process coherence and (2) coherence between policies from six sectors and ten common food systems goals. Regarding the former, all countries analysed had strong framework documents for cross-sectoral food policy, backed by high-level political commitment, but they tended to be much weaker when it came to capacity for implementation and especially monitoring and accountability. Policy coherence across sectors was generally strong for the goals of climate change adaptation and social protection but weaker for goals of healthy diets for all, adequate wages for food system workers, and climate change mitigation through food systems. Trade policy was the policy area with the greatest incoherence with a diverse range of food systems goals. The results offer the most comprehensive analysis of food systems policy coherence to date. The tool makes a useful contribution to measuring policy coherence and can serve as both a foundation for future research and enhance accountability for achieving coherent policy outcomes.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/183457
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/103628
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100803
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.04.004
dc.relationhttps://www.gainhealth.org/blogs/political-economy-decision-toolkit-anticipating-policy-bottlenecks-food-system-transformation
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceNordhagen, Stella; Tankari, Mahamadou; Morrison, Jamie; Collins, Julie; Parsons, Kelly; et al. 2026. Food systems policy coherence: A ten-country assessment. Food Policy 142(August 2026): 103113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2026.103113
dc.subjectfood systems
dc.subjectpolicies
dc.subjectfood policies
dc.subjectframeworks
dc.subjectclimate change adaptation
dc.subjecttrade
dc.titleFood systems policy coherence: A ten-country assessment
dc.typeJournal Article

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