Food Environment Typology: Advancing an Expanded Definition, Framework, and Methodological Approach for Improved Characterization of Wild, Cultivated, and Built Food Environments toward Sustainable Diets
Food Environment Typology: Advancing an Expanded Definition, Framework, and Methodological Approach for Improved Characterization of Wild, Cultivated, and Built Food Environments toward Sustainable Diets
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DOI：
10.3390/foods9040532
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发表时间：
2020-04-01
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5.2
通讯作者：
Herforth, Anna
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作者：
Downs, Shauna M.;Ahmed, Selena;Herforth, Anna
食品环境是食品系统中实施干预措施以支持可持续饮食和解决全球肥胖、营养不良和气候变化问题的关键环节，因为它包含了消费者决定购买和消费哪些食品的全部选择范围。在本文中，我们在现有的食品环境定义的基础上，提供了一个扩展的定义，其中包括食品和饮料的可持续性特性参数，以整合食品环境和可持续饮食之间的联系。我们进一步使用社会生态框架提供食品环境的图形表示。接下来，我们提供了一种类型学，描述了低收入、中等收入和高收入国家消费者可以接触到的不同类型的食物环境，包括野生、栽培和建筑食物环境。我们描述了每种食品环境类型的食品和饮料的可用性、可负担性、便利性、促销和质量（以前称为合意性）以及可持续性特性。最后，我们确定了一种方法论，具有潜在的客观和主观工具和指标，用于测量各种类型食品环境的不同特性。这里提出的定义、框架、类型和方法工具箱旨在帮助学者和从业者确定食品环境的切入点，以实施和评估支持可持续饮食的干预措施，以增强人类和地球的健康。
The food environment is a critical place in the food system to implement interventions to support sustainable diets and address the global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change, because it contains the total scope of options within which consumers make decisions about which foods to acquire and consume. In this paper, we build on existing definitions of the food environment, and provide an expanded definition that includes the parameter of sustainability properties of foods and beverages, in order to integrate linkages between food environments and sustainable diets. We further provide a graphical representation of the food environment using a socio-ecological framework. Next, we provide a typology with descriptions of the different types of food environments that consumers have access to in low-, middle-, and high-income countries including wild, cultivated, and built food environments. We characterize the availability, affordability, convenience, promotion and quality (previously termed desirability), and sustainability properties of food and beverages for each food environment type. Lastly, we identify a methodological approach with potential objective and subjective tools and metrics for measuring the different properties of various types of food environments. The definition, framework, typology, and methodological toolbox presented here are intended to facilitate scholars and practitioners to identify entry points in the food environment for implementing and evaluating interventions that support sustainable diets for enhancing human and planetary health.