A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System (2015) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
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The behavior of actors can lead to unforeseen, unintended, or unwanted results, even with the best analytical techniques. Other characteristics of the system -- its permeable borders that connect it both to a global food system and to a diverse, changing broader economy and society and the different tolerances for risk and values as well as changing individual and societal priorities -- add further dynamism to the food system and uncertainty to its analysis.
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, human health (e.g., direct health effects, such as nutrition and hunger, foodborne illnesses or diet-related chronic disease risk, and indirect health effects, such as those associated with hunger and stunted development or soil, air, and water pollution) , and society (e.g., effects on
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Finding the best solutions that minimize costs to society can only be achieved when the options are well considered and their differing effects are measured and weighed. In addressing these issues, questions arise as to how to measure the effects and consider trade-offs resulting from agricultural and food system practices, what current methodologies can be used to analyze and compare the tradeoffs, and what data gaps and uncertainties exist to hamper decision making.
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It brought together expert stakeholders who rarely explore these questions together, and individual speakers who stressed the need for an evidence-based, integrated framework that could systemically examine the complex relationships among domestic environmental and health effects of the U.S. food system.
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Building on the methods mentioned above, a common analytical framework for decision makers, researchers, and practitioners is needed to systemically consider and evaluate contentious topics. STATEMENT OF TASK AND APPROACH OF THE COMMITTEE The Task The IOM and the NRC convened an expert committee to develop an analytical framework for assessing the health, environmental, social, and economic effects (whether positive or negative, intentional or unintentional)
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so as to minimize unintended consequences across the health, environmental, social, and economic dimensions. The committee envisions the framework to be useful in many ways and to be used by different audiences (e.g., policy makers, researchers, practitioners, other stakeholders)
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. Different configurations for the committee to con sider might include regionally based food systems and a global food system; free-range production of poultry and caged housing practices; and reduced retail presence of processed food and current availability of processed food.
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food system and the global nature of the food and agriculture industry as a whole, the committee recognizes that any actions in the United States will have effects not just at the domestic level, but globally as well. Given widely different levels of economic and food system development worldwide, effects of similar policies or practices elsewhere could be both important and very different.
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For example, the framework could be used by private companies or public institutions to help guide decisions about management of food waste or of food defense concerns, but none of these aspects (or many others) are elaborated in the report.
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2007. Promoting healthy diets and tackling obesity and diet-related chronic diseases: What are the agricultural policy levers?
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