Ultra-processed food environments: Aligning policy beliefs from the state, market, and civil society
| dc.creator | Mockshell, Jonathan | |
| dc.creator | Ritter, Thea Nielsen | |
| dc.date | 2023-10-16 | |
| dc.date | 2023-11-07T09:27:24Z | |
| dc.date | 2023-11-07T09:27:24Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-27T13:24:25Z | |
| dc.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. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132790 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/58407 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | |
| dc.publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute | |
| dc.relation | https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198882121.001.0001 | |
| dc.rights | Open Access | |
| dc.source | 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. | |
| dc.subject | health | |
| dc.subject | food access | |
| dc.subject | nutrition security | |
| dc.subject | agrifood sector | |
| dc.subject | political systems | |
| dc.title | Ultra-processed food environments: Aligning policy beliefs from the state, market, and civil society | |
| dc.type | Book Chapter |