Analysis of food policymaking through a food systems lens: a review of analytical frameworks.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This paper aims to summarise the frameworks currently used to analyse food policymaking processes and to critically assess whether those frameworks can be applied to the analysis of integrated, 'systems' approaches to policymaking.

Design

Two electronic databases were searched to identify publications analysing food policymaking processes. Data from the publications were charted using an iterative coding process, and details of the underlying analytical frameworks were recorded. Identified frameworks were evaluated using theories of systems approaches to food policy development.

Setting

Governmental food policy at the supranational, national and local levels.

Results

The search process yielded 532 results. After screening, a final forty-three publicat

SUBMITTER: Stanley I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12516611 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature