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Title: Food system: A frame to improve health


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Food system A frame to improve health
Paula Jones San Francisco Department of Public
Health
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What is a food system?
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The Complex Food System
Taken from 2005 San Francisco Collaborative Food
System Assessment
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What is a food system?
  • Includes all processes involved in keeping us
    fed
  • growing, harvesting, processing, packaging,
    transporting, marketing, consuming and disposing
    of food
  • Operates within and is influenced by social,
    economic and natural environments
  • Dependent on human resources that provide labor,
    research and education

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The Complex Food System
Taken from Roots of Change
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Whats wrong with our current food system?
  • Public Health hunger, food desserts, income
    inequality and high cost of food, poor food
    choices, exposure to pesticides and other
    chemicals, antibiotic resistance
  • Environmental air and water pollution, high
    energy consumption due to production methods,
    transportation, packaging
  • Unsustainable Development urban sprawl/loss of
    fertile farmland

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Why does a food system frame matter?
  • Growing interest in food and agriculture issues
  • Different perspectives (social justice vs.
    environmental sustainability)
  • Competing priorities
  • Incomplete understanding of all issues

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How can a food system frame help?
  • Communicates complexity
  • Gives voice to all groups
  • Breaks down silos
  • Builds advocates for multiple food system issues

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Food system promoting collaboration and
partnerships
  • 2005 SF Collaborative Food System Assessment
  • Food stamps at farmers markets
  • Southeast Food Access Working Group
  • City funding of salad bars
  • For more information www.sffood.org
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