Open AccessLocal food and nutrition policy
Author(s) -
Grossman Jason,
Webb Karen
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
australian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.946
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1753-6405
pISSN - 1035-7319
DOI - 10.1111/j.1753-6405.1991.tb00346.x
Subject(s) - business , local government , population , government (linguistics) , food supply , food policy , scale (ratio) , copying , private sector , public policy , economic growth , environmental health , economics , political science , food security , medicine , public administration , geography , agricultural economics , agriculture , linguistics , philosophy , cartography , archaeology , law
Local food and nutrition policies (small‐scale efforts to create food systems that respond to nutritional needs) are becoming more and more fashionable as a way of improving public health in Australia. Opportunities for local food and nutrition policies include urban planning, institutional catering, the private sector and local government. These policies are only feasible in organisational environments that are ready to receive them, although their chances of improving the population's food supply can be maximised by copying some aspects of successful policy programs of the past.