Policy Insights from the Nutritional Food Market Transformation Model: The Case of Obesity Prevention Dynamics

Jeroen Struben, Derek Chan and Laurette Dubé
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Jeroen Struben: McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada]
Derek Chan: McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada]
Laurette Dubé: McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada]

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Abstract: This paper presents a system dynamics policy model of nutritional food market transformation, tracing over-time interactions between the nutritional quality of supply, consumer food choice, population health, and governmental policy. Applied to the Canadian context and with body mass index as the primary outcome, we examine policy portfolios for obesity prevention, including (1) industry self-regulation efforts, (2) health- and nutrition-sensitive governmental policy, and (3) efforts to foster health- and nutrition-sensitive innovation. This work provides novel theoretical and practical insights on drivers of nutritional market transformations, highlighting the importance of integrative policy portfolios to simultaneously shift food demand and supply for successful and self-sustaining nutrition and health sensitivity. We discuss model extensions for deeper and more comprehensive linkages of nutritional food market transformation with supply, demand, and policy in agrifood and health/health care. These aim toward system design and policy that can proactively, and with greater impact, scale, and resilience, address single as well as double malnutrition in varying country settings.

Keywords: Overnutrition; Obesity; market formation; Agrifood innovation; System dynamics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-12-01
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Published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2014, 1331 (1), 57-75 p. ⟨10.1111/nyas.12381⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12381

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