New Economy, Food, and Agriculture

Abstract

Consumers are becoming increasingly more informed about food systems and are interested not only in healthy, safe, and tasty food but also in sustainable production, animal welfare, climate changes, and food waste. Consumers are also more focused on changing their lifestyle related to improved health knowledge and nutrition education (Timmer 2005). Maxwell and Slater (2004) have proposed criteria to evaluate food systems, including nutrition and health, rights and influence, security, sustainability, equality, and social inclusion. The authors also point out that the primary international institutions in the food value chain are not only the Food and

Editorial: Social, technological and health innovation: Opportunities and limitations for social policy, health policy, and environmental policy

“…The main idea behind the Research Topic "Social, Technological and Health Innovation: Opportunities and Limitations for Social Policy, Health Policy, and Environmental Policy" comes from previous studies of co-editors on the roles of innovation in selected public policies (Klimczuk and Klimczuk-Kochańska, 2019;Klimczuk and Tomczyk, 2020;Felix and Klimczuk, 2021). Four new goals underpinned work on this Research Topic: (1) to identify and share the best current practices and innovations related to social, environmental, and health policies; (2) to debate relevant governance modes, management tools as well as evaluation and impact assessment techniques; (3) to discuss dilemmas in the fields of management, financing, designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining the sustainability of innovative models of delivering social, health and care services; and (4) to recognize and analyze social, technological and health innovation that has emerged or has been scaled-up to respond to crises such as a COVID-19 pandemic.…”

Organic Agriculture

“…From a broader perspective, organic food products are part of a "green market" that includes organic products as well as related services and activities that are not only related to farming (such as resource and energy reuse, repairing, refurbishing, retrofitting, remanufacturing, recycling, upcycling, and reselling). Thus, the green market has a lot in common with concepts such as the "informal (or grey) economy," the "permaculture economy," and the "circular economy" (Klimczuk and Klimczuk-Kochańska 2018b).…”