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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"food policy"”.
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Food Consumption, Food Cash Dependency, and Food Policy in Indonesia
… were also very dependent on cash for acquiring food. Most agricultural economists concerned with less developed countries have long assumed that rural households produced most of the food they consumed. This study found that among the 1183 rural households surveyed in Eastern Java, the lowest …
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Feeding Obesity Through Food Policy: A Comparison Between the United States and European Union
… government intervention has promoted change in food policy. Food policy is defined as the area of public policy concerned with how food is produced, processed, distributed, purchased, consumed, and protected. It is evident that there are major differences between the United States and European …
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A new institutionalist analysis of local level food policy in England between 2012 and 2014
This thesis explores the potential for food policy groups in England to render the food environment within their local areas more sustainable and resilient. The main question it addresses is how institutional norms, values and practices affect food policy groups’ capacity to pursue their aims. The …
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The political universe of economic policy : rising peasantry, the state and food policy in India
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1990.
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Social Marketing and Food Policy in Greece: Findings from Research with Undergraduate Students and Key Stakeholders
… countries, has experienced great changes in food supply, consumption patterns and health outcomes. Famous for its Mediterranean diet, it has actually undergone a modem nutrition transition, and now has high rates of overweight and obesity and increased incidence of non-communicable …
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One thousand friends of food : strategies for the implementation of local food policy in New York City
… into how New York City can incorporate local food system planning into their existing sustainability program by capitalizing on recent energy and grassroots initiatives. I argue for the importance of local and regionally produced food as a part of food system sustainability, and propose that …
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The turn to the market in UK food policy 2002-2015 and its impact on the vegetable sector in England
… ideas about markets and marketing have shaped food policy. It focuses on the vegetable sector in England in the early years of the new millennium. The study takes the 2002 Report of the Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food (Curry Commission) as its starting point. It explores how …
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An Exploration of the Structure, Issue Framing and Priorities of Virginia's Food Policy Groups to Collaborate on a Healthy, Resilient and Sustainable Food System
Food policy groups (FPG) have emerged in the United States (U.S.) to create healthy, resilient and sustainable food systems. There is a lack of research about FPG in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This M.S. thesis describes a mixed-methods study that investigated the structure, issue framing, …
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Getting People to Wish What They Need: How the United States Government Used Public Relations Strategies to Communicate Food Policy During World War II, 1941-1945
… healthy eating was distributed to media and food companies along with other messages about rationing restrictions and compliance. A vestige of that time that still exists today is the USDA's Recommended Dietary Allowances. This study examines cookbooks, newspaper and magazine articles as …
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The economics of large scale wheat production in Zimbabwe
… in Zimbabwe and draws historical lessons for a food policy aimed at self-sufficiency in wheat. An activity analysis approach to the problem of wheat production is presented. The approach employs questionnaire survey data to construct wheat enterprise budgets. The budgets as well as direct …
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Food and Social Life in Puglia: A Comparison Family Food Worlds in Northern and Southern Italy
This thesis explores the role of food in northern and southern Italian culture. My goal is to point out the cultural differences between northern and southern Italy through the lens of food. This thesis also explains the geographical, historical and economic factors that have shaped modern Italian …
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Representations of Housewife Identity in BBC Home Front Radio Broadcasts, 1939-1945
While British food policy during the Second World War was a resounding success, it relied on and reinforced traditional gender roles. An equal shares model for food control provided a sense of national solidarity, but housewives were still represented as inferior to men. <p>This thesis examines …
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Examining the intention-behavior gap: The impact of the food environment on the eating behaviors of low-income African American women
… barriers to the intention-behavior gap. The food environment was examined as a moderator between motivation for healthy living and actual eating behavior. A sample of 55 low-income African American women (<em>M<sub>age</sub></em> = 30.25, <em>SD</em> = 7.46) completed self-report motivation …
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Food welfare for low-income women and children in the UK: a policy analysis of the Healthy Start scheme
Food welfare for low-income women and children in the UK is an unexplored area of food policy. The current food welfare scheme for low-income women and children in the UK is called Healthy Start, and this replaced the previous Welfare Food Scheme in 2006. The main changes were that Healthy Start …
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Role of Public Procurement in Improving the Consumption of Millets
The objective of India's food policy ensures that agriculture is remunerative, and farm prices are stable through assured minimum support prices (MSP) to farmers while at the same time ensuring subsidized food access for poor consumers through the Public Distribution System (PDS). One of India's …
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State policy and food insecurity in Kenya's arid and semi-arid land (ASAL) regions
… continued to experience chronic and persistent food crises despite the efforts made by governmental and non-governmental organizations to address the problem. Inappropriate policies and poor approaches have partly been blamed for this persistence. This study therefore seeks to examine how food …
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Growing Toward the Sun: How the Good-Food Movement Catapulted a Small New York City Third-Sector Organization into Rapid Growth, Success, and Many Challenges
… organization focused on what it calls "food justice." This study concentrates on how this organization, that I call Food Rights, has built a broad multi-sector network made up of a varied set of constituents and collaborators aiming to develop and promote an alternative food system for …
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Ill fares the Land? The concept of national food self sufficiency in political discourse 1880-1939.
After the repeal of the Corn Laws ended the policy of protectionism which had enabled Britain to feed herself from within her own resources, free trade resulted in domestic food production constituting only 30% of the British diet. This study looks at the political discourse from 1880 to 1939 when …
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PLANTING RESISTANCE: A history of seed sovereignty
… and ecological significance of the diverse food landscapes created, tended, and reproduced through farmers’ everyday practices. This thesis tells a history of seed sovereignty and excavates the understudied narratives that shaped its political and ecological manifestations. It critically …
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A Local Level Response to Reducing Childhood Hunger and Advancing SDG#2
… Region of Waterloo (ROW) through a case study of Food4Kids Waterloo Region (F4K-WR). Additionally, the F4K-WR program model was investigated to understand how local-level interventions are helping Canada achieve Sustainable Development Goal # 2: Zero Hunger. A case study approach was the most …
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