The key roles of economic and social organization and producer and consumer behaviour towards a health-agriculture-food-
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The key roles of economic and social organization and producer and consumer behaviour towards a health-agriculture-food-environment nexus: recent advances and future prospects Alban Thomas 1 & Claire Lamine 2 & Benjamin Allès 3 & Yuna Chiffoleau 4 & Antoine Doré 5 & Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier 6 & Mourad Hannachi 7 Received: 11 November 2019 / Accepted: 25 June 2020/ # INRAE and Springer-Verlag France SAS, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract We discuss in this paper the role of the economic and social organization in agriculture and the food industry, in relation with the Health-Agriculture-FoodEnvironment (HAFEN) concept. The aim is to better understand the potential impact of the implementation of this concept in food consumption and production systems in terms of research needs. The paper suggests a research agenda dedicated to the modes of social and economic organization of key stakeholders in the implementation of nexus-based systems, facilitating the convergence among health, food and environmental objectives. Based on a literature survey, three main topics are discussed: (a) processes and drivers of change of food consumption practices; (b) coordination and multi-agent governance modes to better account for health issues in agrifood systems and (c) the analysis of paradigms that put forward health as an entry point to reshape existing agricultural and food systems, and associated modes of knowledge production. For each of these topics, we suggest a selection of research priorities for the future and conclude with methodological perspectives on the HAFEN. Keywords Nexus . Food system . Health . Social and economic organization . Behaviour
This paper originates from a working group of the collective foresight study on health and food nexus at INRAE (French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, formerly INRA) that was carried out in 2018 and early 2019. We thank Stephan Marette and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. Alban Thomas acknowledges funding from ANR under grant ANR-17-EURE-0010.
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Introduction Scientific evidence on the multiple impacts of current farming and food systems, as well as the rise of alternative ways of producing and consuming food, point to the need to better connect the different objectives associated with health, food, agriculture and the environment (Hammond and Dubé, 2012; Marsden and Sonnino 2012; Duru et al. 2017, Gordon et al. 2017). Reconnecting health, agricultural, food and environmental objectives is no easy task and in fact, most conceptual approaches combine challenges two by two: agricultural and environmental questions (with a diversity of paradigms such as “ecologically-consistent” agricultural models); agricultural and food issues with the development of food-system approaches; food and health questions with thriving nutritional models; and finally, environmental and health issues (with e.g. the n
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