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Julian Kunz
Austria
Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety GmbH
Research Institute
Food environments, sustainability monitoring, environmental indicators, evidence based policy making, policy mixes, consumer behaviour
Topic 1: Domestic food practices for enhancing sustainable and healthy diets
The AGES coordination center for sustainable food systems is interested in joining a consortium with relevance to the topic of food environments or would like to contribute by adding a work package in this area. Food environments are the interface between food supply and the decision making of consumers.
Monitoring of food environments is in its infancy though: both its conceptual development and practical application are neither widely spread nor approached in a harmonized way. Furthermore, the focus is mostly on health aspects of food environments, i.e. in how far they contribute to healthy diets. Further research is needed into which food environment indicators could cover the environmental sustainability dimension of food environments, ideally integrating various dimensions of sustainability.
Focus on cities?
Research can encompass the following questions:
- Which indicators are meaningful and informative?
- Which set of indicators gives a comprehensive picture of the situation?
- Which indicators are readily available or can be compiled easily?
- What are gaps thate urgently need to be addressed?
- How could such indicators be used as hands-on decision- making support for evidence- based food environment policies?
Qualitative and quantitative research needed: This research area can either contribute to topic 1 by elucidating the role of food environments for household food choices and habits, or to topic 3 by developing novel indicators to inform stakeholders such as consumers and environmental policy makers and the private sector about the status of food environments and thereby improve the understanding and transparency of the environmental sustainability of food environments.
Monitoring of food environments is in its infancy though: both its conceptual development and practical application are neither widely spread nor approached in a harmonized way. Furthermore, the focus is mostly on health aspects of food environments, i.e. in how far they contribute to healthy diets. Further research is needed into which food environment indicators could cover the environmental sustainability dimension of food environments, ideally integrating various dimensions of sustainability.
Focus on cities?
Research can encompass the following questions:
- Which indicators are meaningful and informative?
- Which set of indicators gives a comprehensive picture of the situation?
- Which indicators are readily available or can be compiled easily?
- What are gaps thate urgently need to be addressed?
- How could such indicators be used as hands-on decision- making support for evidence- based food environment policies?
Qualitative and quantitative research needed: This research area can either contribute to topic 1 by elucidating the role of food environments for household food choices and habits, or to topic 3 by developing novel indicators to inform stakeholders such as consumers and environmental policy makers and the private sector about the status of food environments and thereby improve the understanding and transparency of the environmental sustainability of food environments.
The Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety GmbH (AGES) is a One Health organisation that supports the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Climate and Environmental Protection, Regions and Water Management (BMLRT) and the Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection (BMASGK) with research, analytical and monitoring activities in areas ranging from agricultural production and food safety to nutrition and health. The National Coordination Centre for Sustainable Food Systems supports interministerial collaboration on sustainable food system initiatives.