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.

在这份提案中，我们提出了五年研究的愿景，这将有助于实现食品系统的重大变革。这些变化旨在使食品更健康，更实惠，对环境的危害更小，但仍然为企业所接受。这项工作将涉及许多不同类型的研究人员，他们通常不一起工作，以及商业公司，市理事会和民间社会组织。我们的研究结果将影响地方和国家政府，食品公司和其他组织，这些组织在为社区提供健康，负担得起和可持续的食品方面发挥着重要作用。研究将集中在伯明翰，一个人口多样化的英国大城市。这项工作将分为六个紧密相连的工作包。研究小组将共同研究每个工作包，并定期分享他们的研究结果。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革，并可供其他试图做出类似变革的地方使用。在第一个工作包中，我们将与社区和来自当地理事会和食品企业的人员合作，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参与，他们做什么，以及他们如何共同努力，为社区提供食品。我们将探讨资金和粮食如何在系统中流动。我们将与社区成员和相关组织的人员举行会议，以确保我们正确了解整个食品系统。我们将使用我们的“系统地图”来确定我们可以使用哪些信息来衡量食品系统如何运作。在可能的情况下，我们使用已经收集的数据，我们可以创造性地和有效地使用。我们将在必要时使用新方法收集新数据。我们将寻求将不同类型的数据整合在一起的方法，以便用于衡量粮食系统随着时间的推移以及对新政策或计划的反应而发生的变化。我们将分析这些信息，看看它告诉我们什么关于食品系统是如何工作的。一旦我们有了食品系统的地图，并了解它是如何工作的，我们将帮助伯明翰市理事会制定计划，以改变食品系统。改革的目的是使食品更健康，更实惠，更有利于环境，而不会对企业产生负面影响。这些计划将包括切实可行、负担得起、有可能实现我们的目标并与其他国家和地方政策相一致的行动。可能的行动包括改变商业费率以鼓励更健康的食品的销售，或者开发在线系统以帮助当地企业寻找和使用更多的当地种植的食品。研究的下一阶段将是实施这些计划，并探索哪些行动最能实现我们的目标--无论是单独的还是组合的。由于工作方案只持续五年，我们将无法研究行动的长期影响。相反，我们将建立一个计算机模型来预测在真实的生活中测试的行为在未来可能如何影响健康、环境、经济和食品业。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、经济和企业产生不同的影响。研究结果将有助于制定改变其他城市和地区食品系统的计划。在这五年里，我们将定期与其他科学家和食品企业、理事会和社区的人交谈。我们将分享我们的想法和调查结果，并征求他们对我们工作进展的看法。我们将开发许多有吸引力的方式来分享这些信息，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