从叉子到农场:逆向工程食品系统
John Ingram1,2,3, David Barling4, Natasha Bayes5
1Environmental Change Institute, SoGE, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK.
概括
该项目探索了系统性创新,以增加英国的干豆消费,促进更健康的饮食和环境效益. 规模化英国豆提供健康,环境和经济优势,具体取决于实施战略.
科学领域:
- 食品系统分析 食品系统分析
- 可持续农业 可持续农业
- 公共卫生 营养 公共卫生 营养
背景情况:
- 英国的食品系统在促进健康饮食和减少对环境的影响方面面临着挑战.
- 目前的机构餐饮和家庭做法还没有完全采用可持续和营养丰富的食物选择.
- 需要系统性创新来改变食品消费模式,以改善健康和地球福祉.
研究的目的:
- 探索"叉到农场"的系统创新,以使用新的干豆品种来改变英国的食品系统.
- 评估增加干豆消费的潜力,以改善公共卫生和减少环境足迹.
- 识别和分析企业扩大豆生产和消费的机会.
主要方法:
- 在六所小学和莱斯特和莱斯特郡的十个家庭中,在系统思维框架内利用行动研究.
- 审查了城市,县和国家一级的学校食品政策.
- 开发了英国干豆消费增加的三个需求场景 (17,34,50g/天) 和三个相应的企业机会.
主要成果:
- 分析了扩大英国干豆生产和消费的好处和权衡.
- 健康益处与消费增加有关,而环境益处则取决于土地转型和杂草管理.
- 经济效益取决于所选择的规模化方法 (社区企业,手工艺企业家,食品巨头).
结论:
- 在英国增加干豆消费为改善健康和环境结果提供了显著的潜力.
- 系统性创新,整合农业,餐饮和家庭,对于实现这些好处至关重要.
- 量身定制的企业模式是必要的,以优化扩大豆生产的经济和社会影响.
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