The politics of food in the Pacific: coherence and tension in regional policies on nutrition, the food environment and non-communicable diseases.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Our study analysed evolving regional commitments on food policy in the Pacific. Our aim was to understand regional priorities and the context of policy development, to identify opportunities for progress.

Design

We analysed documentation from a decade of regional meetings in order to map regional policy commitments relevant to healthy diets. We focused on agriculture, education, finance, health, and trade sectors, and Heads of State forums. Drawing on relevant political science methodologies, we looked at how these sectors 'frame' the drivers of and solutions to non-communicable diseases (NCD), their policy priorities, and identified areas of coherence and tension.

Setting

The Pacific has among the highest rates of non-communicable diseases in the world, but

SUBMITTER: Dodd R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10200530 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature