Journal issue: Food Systems and Public Health

Posted by on January 11, 2010

The Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition has released a special double issue:

Food Systems and Public Health: Linkages to Achieve Healthier Diets and Healthier Communities in Volume 4, Issues 3 & 4

This special double issue is now available free online at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t792306860

The special issue is co-edited by Mary Story, PhD, RD, of the University of Minnesota, Michael Hamm, PhD, of Michigan State University, and David Wallinga, MD, of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.

This special double issue identifies research opportunities to develop successful interventions within agriculture, food, and health systems as well as policies and actions for moving towards and achieving community environments that allow healthier diets and reduced obesity. This dynamic collection of articles is the outcome of a conference held in April 2009 that focused on the food system, food, agriculture, and agriculture policy which are central to a discussion on healthy diets and obesity prevention. More than 80 leading thinkers nationwide from the health, nutrition, obesity, and health policy domains together with those from the sustainable agriculture, economics, and agriculture policy sectors participated in this robust dialog.

The entire issue ““Food Systems and Public Health: Linkages to Achieve Healthier Diets and Healthier Communities”” is available FREE online at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t792306860

Table of Contents

Editorial: Story, M, Hamm MW, Wallinga D. Food Systems and Public Health: Linkages to Achieve Healthier Diets and Healthier Communities.

Muller M, Tagtow A, Roberts S, MacDougall E. Aligning Food Systems Policies to Advance Public Health.

Hamm, M.W. Principles for Framing a Healthy Food System.

Wallinga, D. Today’s Food System: How Healthy Is It?

Neff  R, Palmer A, McKenzie S, Lawrence R.S. Food Systems and Public Health Disparities.

Lang T. Reshaping the Food System for Ecological Public Health.

Hawkes C. Identifying Innovative Interventions to Promote Healthy Eating Using Consumption-Oriented Food Supply Chain Analysis.

Gereffi G, Lee J, Christian M. U.S.-Based Food and Agricultural Value Chains and Their Relevance to Healthy Diets.

Duffy M. Economies of Size in Production Agriculture.

Jackson RJ, Minjares R, Naumoff KS, Shrimali B P., Martin LK Agriculture Policy is Health Policy.

Harvie J, Mikkelsen L, Shak L. A New Healthcare Prevention Agenda: Sustainable Food Procurement and Agricultural Policy

Herrera, H., Khanna N, Davis L.  Food Systems and Public Health: The Community Perspective

Wasserman, A. Recipe for a Better Tomorrow: A Food Industry Perspective on Sustainability and our Food System

Sturm, R.  Affordability and Obesity: Issues in the Multifunctionality of Agricultural/Food Systems

Malhi L, Karanfil O, Merth T, Acheson M, Palmer A, Finegood D T. Places to Intervene to Make Complex Food Systems More Healthy, Fair, Green and Affordable

Story  M, Hamm MW., Wallinga D. Research and Action Priorities for Linking Public Health, Food Systems, and Sustainable Agriculture: Recommendations from the Airlie Conference

Conference Agenda

List of Conference Participants

Tagtow A, Internet Resource Column

Book Review: Tim Lang, David Barling and Martin Caraher (2009), Food Policy: integrating health, environment and society, Oxford University Press.

Reviewed by Sophia Murphy, Senior Advisor on Trade, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy