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

在这项提案中，我们提出了我们对五年研究的愿景，这将有助于带来食品体系的重要变化。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，他们通常不在一起工作，以及商业公司、市议会和公民社会组织。我们的发现将影响地方和国家政府、食品公司和其他组织，这些组织在将健康、负担得起和可持续的食品带给社区方面发挥着重要作用。研究将集中在伯明翰，这是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。研究小组将在每个工作包上共同工作，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体系改革，并可用于其他试图做出类似改变的地方。在第一个工作方案中，我们将与社区以及当地议会和食品企业的人员合作，创建当前食品体系的地图。这将展示参与其中的不同类型的企业和其他组织，他们做什么，以及他们如何合作向社区运送食物。我们将探索资金和食品是如何在这个系统中流动的。我们将与社区成员和相关组织的人员举行会议，以确保我们正确地了解整个食品体系。我们将使用我们的“系统图”来研究我们可以用什么信息来衡量食品体系是如何运作的。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这些数据。我们将在必要时使用新的方法收集新的数据。我们将寻求将不同类型的数据汇集在一起的方法，以便可以用来衡量粮食系统随着时间的推移以及对新政策或方案的反应的变化。我们将分析这些信息，看看它告诉我们关于食物系统是如何工作的。一旦我们有了食物系统的地图，并了解了它是如何工作的，我们将帮助伯明翰市议会制定改变食物系统的计划。改革的目的将是在不对企业造成负面影响的情况下，使食品更健康、更实惠、更环保。这些计划将包括切实、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兼容的行动。可能的行动可能包括改变商业费率以鼓励销售更健康的食品，或者开发在线系统来帮助当地企业寻找和使用更多本地种植的食品。下一阶段的研究将是实施这些计划，并探索哪些行动最有效地实现我们的目标--无论是单独行动还是联合行动。由于工作方案将只运行五年，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，以预测在现实生活中测试的行为在未来可能如何影响健康、环境、经济和食品行业。该模型还将为其他地方的地方议会和食品企业提供一个有用的工具，以探索不同的行动可能如何对健康、环境、经济和企业产生不同的影响。这些结果将有助于制定改变其他城市和地区食品体系的计划。在这五年中，我们将定期与其他科学家和食品业人士、委员会和社区进行交流。我们将分享我们的想法和发现，并就我们的工作如何发展征求他们的意见。我们将开发一些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。

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.