Local Environment Action on Food project: impact of a community-based food environment intervention in Canada

Aylward, Breanne L; Milford, Krista M; Storey, Kate; Nykiforuk, Candace I. J.; Raine, Kim D.

doi:10.1093/heapro/daab127

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“…Identifying community-level priorities for their local food environments and establishing public-private partnerships to serve these needs can also be effective in promoting healthy diets (Thow et al, 2018;Yu et al, 2018). Furthermore, local governments can play a significant role in discouraging the consumption of low-cost and unhealthy processed foods through policies and regulations, as demonstrated by Mozaffarian et al (2018) and Aylward et al (2022).…”

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Shaping food environments to support sustainable healthy diets in low and middle-income countries

Kumar

Das

Kasala

et al. 2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The global ambitions to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture demand a complex transition of the current food environments for enabling sustainable healthy diets. The food environments in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) have been experiencing rapid and dynamic transitions across the globe, necessitating a system-level thinking and systemic approach to understand opportunities for improvement. There is a need for valid, reliable measures of food and nutrition environments for reorienting thinking and data collection toward determinants of food demand, especially the food environment components, which are critical to understand the transforming food systems. Food environment transformations are urgently required to provide consumers with more affordable and nutritious diets capable of meeting social and environmental challenges. In the present perspective, we aim to provide insights on prioritizing research on understanding and designing evidence based inclusive food environments which is crucial for promoting long-term food system innovations that are economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable and, above all, contribute to sustainable healthy diets.

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Section: Policy Research At Community/individual Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Shaping food environments to support sustainable healthy diets in low and middle-income countries

Kumar

Das

Kasala

et al. 2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Planning healthy food environments: An analysis of local government municipal public health and wellbeing policy in regional Victoria

Dangerfield,

Ball,

Dickson‐Swift

et al. 2024

Health Prom J of Aust

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Issue AddressedWhile there has been an increased focus on how local governments can support the creation of healthy food environments through healthy public policy, little is known about how this is reflected in public health policy in regional areas. The aim of this study was to understand how improvements to the food environment are prioritised, implemented and evaluated by local governments in regional Victoria.MethodsUsing a qualitative descriptive approach, content analysis was undertaken of Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plans and Council Plans from 10 regional local governments in Victoria, Australia.ResultsSeventeen policy documents were analysed including 10 Council Plans, 6 Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plans and 1 Food Systems Strategy. Findings highlight regional public health and wellbeing plans have very few concrete actions in place to improve food environments.ConclusionThere is an opportunity for Australian regional local governments to include in their public health and wellbeing plans a greater emphasis on supporting healthy food behaviours, and therefore seeking opportunities to improve food environments through clearly aligned priorities, objectives, actions and measures of success.So What?Improving the quality of public health and wellbeing plans can support local government to use policy to drive improvements in food environments leading to improved health and wellbeing for regional communities.

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Citizen science in monitoring food environments: a qualitative collective case study of stakeholders’ experiences during the Local Environment Action on Food project in Alberta, Canada

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Background Citizen science bears potential to build a comprehensive view of global food environments and create a broader discussion about how to improve them. Despite its potential, citizen science has not been fully utilised in food environment research. Thus, we sought to explore stakeholders’ experiences of the Local Environment Action on Food (LEAF) project, a community-based intervention that employs a citizen science approach to monitoring food environments. Methods We used a qualitative collective case study design to explore citizen science through the LEAF process in seven communities in Alberta, Canada. Data generating strategies included semi-structured interviews with citizen scientists (n = 26), document review of communities’ Mini Nutrition Report Cards (n = 7), and researcher observation. Data were analyzed in a multi-phase process, using Charmaz’s constant comparison analysis strategy. Results Analysis revealed two main themes: relationship building and process factors. Communities used three interconnected strategies, engaging the right people, treading lightly, and reaching a consensus, to navigate the vital but challenging relationship building process. Process factors, which were influences on the LEAF process and relationship building, included the local context, flexibility in the LEAF process, and turnover among LEAF community groups. Conclusion Citizen science through the LEAF project supported the creation and application of food environment evidence: it enabled residents to collect and interpret local food environment data, develop realistic recommendations for change, and provided them with an evidence-based advocacy tool to support the implementation of these recommendations. We recommend a web application that enables independent community food environment assessments. Such a tool could stimulate and sustain citizen involvement in food environment efforts, helping to build the necessary evidence base and promote the creation of healthy food environments.

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Local Environment Action on Food project: impact of a community-based food environment intervention in Canada

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

Shaping food environments to support sustainable healthy diets in low and middle-income countries

Shaping food environments to support sustainable healthy diets in low and middle-income countries

Planning healthy food environments: An analysis of local government municipal public health and wellbeing policy in regional Victoria

Citizen science in monitoring food environments: a qualitative collective case study of stakeholders’ experiences during the Local Environment Action on Food project in Alberta, Canada

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