Food Environment and Food Retailing: Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Food Policy
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Food".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 15448
Special Issue Editor
Interests: food environments and nutrition; nutrition transitions; mortality and cause of death analysis; Asia-Pacific health; epidemiology; health information systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last 50 years, food systems globally have undergone profound transitions. Urbanization, industrialization, and technological change have affected food production, processing, distribution, retailing, and consumption. In most countries around the world, food environments are increasingly being dominated by large multi-national food retailers, which are replacing traditional fresh markets and stores. This transition has great implications up and down the food chain, from agriculturalists and food producers who supply the food retail system, to consumers whose food choices are impacted by these new food environments. The effects of food retail change can therefore have an impact on environmental health related to farming practices, as well as human health in terms of changes in food availability and affordability.
In this Special Issue we aim to produce a collective picture of the impact of food environments and particularly food retail systems at all of these levels, environmental health, agricultural and food producer livelihoods, and consumer and nutrition outcomes. We want to gain a broad understanding of the phenomenon of food system change from multiple perspectives.
We invite applications that address the impact of food environments in all of these areas. We particularly encourage contributions and analyses from low- and middle-income settings where food retail and food environment change is most recent and still ongoing.
Dr. Matthew Kelly
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- food retail
- food environments
- nutrition
- supermarkets
- fresh markets
- retail transition
- nutrition transition
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