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Foodscape: a scoping review and a research agenda for food security-related studies

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Vonthron, Simon, Perrin, Coline, Soulard, Christophe-Toussaint·2020·PLoS ONE
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0233218PMC PMC7239489
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Since 1995, the term 'foodscape', a contraction of food and landscape, has been used in various research addressing social and spatial disparities in public health and food systems. This article presents a scoping review of the literature examining how this term is employed and framed. We searched publications using the term foodscape in the Web of Science Core Collection, MEDLINE, and Scopus databases. Analyzing 140 publications, we highlight four approaches to the foodscape: (i) Spatial approaches use statistics and spatial analysis to characterize the diversity of urban foodscapes and their impacts on diet and health, at city or neighborhood scales. (ii) Social and cultural approaches at the same scales show that foodscapes are socially shaped and highlight structural inequalities by combining qualitative case studies and quantitative surveys of food procurement practices. (iii) Behavioral approaches generally focus on indoor micro-scales, showing how consumer perceptions of foodscapes explain and determine food behaviors and food education. (iv) Systemic approaches contest the global corporate food regime and promote local, ethical, and sustainable food networks. Thus, although spatial analysis was the first approach to foodscapes, sociocultural, behavioral and systemic approaches are becoming more common. In the spatial approach, the term 'foodscape' is synonymous with 'food environment'. In the three other approaches, 'foodscape' and 'food environment' are not synonymous. Scholars consider that the foodscape is not an environment external to individuals but a landscape including, perceived, and socially shaped by individuals and policies. They share a systemic way of thinking, considering culture and experience of food as key to improving our understanding of how food systems affect people. Foodscape studies principally address three issues: public health, social justice, and sustainability. The review concludes with a research agenda, arguing that people-based and place-based approaches need to be combined to tackle the complexity of the food-people-territory nexus.

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  • Some dimensions evaluated by TAPE are relevant at higher scales than the farm/household level; nutrition is assessed in agricultural households only and not across supply chains, and youth employment considers non-agricultural job opportunities but not at the relevant scale of the territory.

    “Some dimensions that are evaluated are also relevant at higher scales than the farm/ household level (e.g., Novotny et al., 2020).This is the case for example for nutrition, which is assessed in agricultural households only and not across the supply chains that structure food systems (Fanzo et al., 2020;Vonthron et al., 2020).Youth employment is another example where non-agricultural job opp”

    From Assessing Transitions to Sustainable Agricultural and Food Systems: A Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE) (2020) · cites this paper as Vonthron et al., 2020

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Authors
Vonthron, S., Perrin, C., & Soulard, C.-T.
Affiliations
Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (FR)
Corresponding author
Vonthron, Simon
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Venue
PLoS ONE
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Published
2020-05-20
Volume
15
Issue
5
Pages
e0233218
ISSN
1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0233218
PMC
PMC7239489
OpenAlex
W3027418171
Cited by
163
References
179
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FWCI
11.79
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journal article
Language
en
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  • PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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Funders
Agropolis Fondation (ANR-10-LABX-001-01 Labex Agro)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Urban Green Space and Health
Keywords
foodscapes, food environment, food security, food systems, urban foodscapes, food behavior, social justice, place-based approach
MeSH terms
Food, Food Supply, Humans, Research, Urban Population

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