Transforming Urban Food Systems for Planetary and Population Health (The Mandala Consortium)

转变城市粮食系统以促进地球和人口健康（曼陀罗联盟）

• 批准号: BB/V004832/1
• 负责人: Martin White
• 金额: $ 815.17万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB%2FV004832%2F1
• 关键词: Transforming; Urban; Food; Systems; Planetary

In this proposal we set out our vision for five years of research that will help bring about important changes in the food system. The changes aim to make food healthier, more affordable, less harmful to the environment, but still acceptable to businesses. The work will involve many different types of researcher, who do not usually work together, as well as commercial companies, a city council, and civil society organisations. Our findings will influence local and national governments, food companies and other organisations that play important roles in bringing healthy, affordable and sustainable food to communities.The research will focus on Birmingham, a large English city with a diverse population. The work will be divided into six work packages that will be closely connected. The research team will work together on each of the work packages and share their findings regularly. This will help to ensure that our work achieves effective food system change in Birmingham and can be used by other places trying to make similar changes.In the first work package, we will work with communities and people from the local council and food businesses to create a map of the current food system. This will show the different types of businesses and other organisations involved, what they do and how they work together to deliver food to communities. We will explore how money and food flows through the system. We will have meetings with community members and people from the relevant organisations to ensure we properly understand the whole of the food system.We will use our 'system map' to work out what information we can use to measure how the food system works. Where possible, we use data that is already collected that we can use creatively and efficiently. We will collect new data when necessary using new methods. We will look for ways to bring different types of data together so that it can be used to measure changes in the food system over time and in response to new policies or programmes. We will analyse the information to see what it tells us about how the food systems works.Once we have a map of the food system, and an understanding of how it works, we will help Birmingham City Council develop plans to change the food system. The aim of changes will be to make food more healthy, more affordable and better for the environment without negatively affecting businesses. The plans will include actions that are practical, affordable, likely to achieve our aims and compatible with other national and local policies. Possible actions might include changing business rates to encourage sale of healthier foods, or developing online systems to help local businesses find and use more locally grown food.The next stage of the research will be to implement the plans and explore which of the actions work best to achieve our aims - both singly and in combination. Because the programme of work will only run for five years, we will not be able to study long term impacts of actions. Instead we will build a computer model to predict how the actions that are tested in real life are likely to affect health, the environment, the economy and food business in the future. The model will also provide a useful tool for local councils and food businesses in other places to explore how different actions might impact differently on health, the environment, the economy and businesses. The results will help make plans for changing the food system in other cities and regions.Throughout the five years, we will talk regularly to other scientists and people in food businesses, the council and the community. We will share our thinking and findings and seek their views on how our work is evolving. We will develop a number of attractive ways to share this information, including films and blogs, newspaper articles and scientific papers.

在此提案中，我们阐述了五年研究的愿景，这将有助于带来食品系统的重要变化。这些变化旨在使食品更健康，更实惠，对环境有害，但仍然可以接受企业。这项工作将涉及许多不同类型的研究人员，他们通常不共同努力，商业公司，市议会和民间社会组织。我们的发现将影响当地和国家政府，食品公司和其他组织在为社区带来健康，负担得起和可持续的食品方面发挥重要作用的组织。这项研究将重点介绍伯明翰，伯明翰是一个人口多样的英国大城市。该工作将分为六个将密切连接的工作包。研究团队将共同处理每个工作包，并定期分享他们的发现。这将有助于确保我们的工作在伯明翰实现有效的食品系统变化，并可以由其他地方试图进行类似的更改来使用。在第一个工作包中，我们将与地方议会和食品企业的社区以及人们合作，以创建当前食品系统的地图。这将显示不同类型的企业和其他组织，他们做什么以及如何共同努力为社区提供食物。我们将探讨金钱和食物如何流入系统。我们将与社区成员和来自相关组织的人们举行会议，以确保我们正确理解整个食品系统。我们将使用“系统地图”来弄清楚可以使用哪些信息来衡量食品系统的工作方式。在可能的情况下，我们使用已经收集的数据，这些数据可以创造性地有效地使用。我们将在必要时使用新方法收集新数据。我们将寻找将不同类型的数据融合在一起的方法，以便随着时间的流逝和响应新的政策或程序来测量食品系统的变化。我们将分析信息，以了解它告诉我们食品系统如何工作的内容。一旦我们拥有食品系统地图，以及对其运作方式的理解，我们将帮助伯明翰市议会制定更改食品系统的计划。更改的目的是使食物更健康，更实惠，对环境更加健康，而不会对企业产生负面影响。这些计划将包括实用，负担得起的行动，可以实现我们的目标并与其他国家和地方政策兼容。可能的行动可能包括改变业务价格以鼓励销售更健康的食品，或开发在线系统以帮助当地企业查找和使用更多本地种植的食品。该研究的下一个阶段将是实施计划并探索哪些行动最有效，可以单独和结合使用我们的目标。由于工作计划只会运行五年，因此我们将无法研究行动的长期影响。取而代之的是，我们将建立一个计算机模型，以预测现实生活中测试的行动如何影响健康，环境，经济和食品业务。该模型还将为其他地方的地方议会和食品企业提供有用的工具，以探索不同的行动如何对健康，环境，经济和企业的影响不同。结果将有助于制定计划在其他城市和地区改变食品系统的计划。五年来，我们将定期与食品业务，理事会和社区中的其他科学家和人们进行交谈。我们将分享我们的思维和发现，并寻求他们对我们的工作如何发展的看法。我们将开发多种有吸引力的方式来共享这些信息，包括电影和博客，报纸文章和科学论文。

项目成果

The UK government's 2022 food strategy a year later.

一年后，英国政府发布了 2022 年食品战略。

• DOI: 10.1038/s43016-023-00859-x
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Nature food
• 影响因子: 23.2
• 作者: Doherty B

Where have all the equations gone? A unified view on semi-quantitative problem structuring and modelling

• DOI: 10.1080/01605682.2022.2039565
• 发表时间: 2022-03
• 期刊: Journal of the Operational Research Society
• 影响因子: 3.6
• 作者: E. Settanni;R. Heijungs;J. Srai

UK government food strategy lacks ambition to achieve transformative food system change.

英国政府的粮食战略缺乏实现粮食系统变革的雄心。

• DOI: 10.1038/s43016-022-00558-z
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Nature food
• 影响因子: 23.2
• 作者: Doherty B

How Important are Digital Technologies for Urban Food Security? A Framework for Supply Chain Integration using IoT

数字技术对城市粮食安全有多重要？

• DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2022.12.368
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Procedia Computer Science
• 作者: Mantravadi S

The Role of Digital Platforms in E-commerce Food Supply Chain Resilience under Exogenous Disruptions

数字平台在外部干扰下电子商务食品供应链弹性中的作用

• DOI: 10.17863/cam.105440
• 发表时间: 2024
• 作者: Srai J