A retrospective public health analysis of the Republic of Ireland's Food Harvest 2020 strategy: absence, avoidance and business as usual

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dc.contributor.authorKenny, Tara
dc.contributor.authorCronin, Mary
dc.contributor.authorSage, Colin
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Councilen
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-24T14:28:36Z
dc.date.available2017-03-24T14:28:36Z
dc.date.issued2017-03-01
dc.date.updated2017-03-14T15:51:10Z
dc.description.abstractThe concept of an Ecological Approach to health and including Health in All Policies warrants inter-sectoral and transdisciplinary collaboration to improve health determinants and reduce health inequities. Agriculture policies, which greatly influence food production and its environmental impacts as well as food availability and dietary consumption, are therefore of interest to public health. Increasing rates of non-communicable diseases linked to diets containing high levels of processed foods, increasing numbers of households unable to access nutritious food and the environmental consequences of the food system are amongst the major health challenges of today, both globally and in Ireland. In 2010, Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries published Food Harvest 2020 a roadmap for Irish agriculture for the subsequent decade prepared against a backdrop of rising diet-related ill-health and increasing environmental concerns. This article critically analyses the process of consultation and stakeholder involvement in the development of Food Harvest 2020 from a public health perspective. Publically available documents including submissions to the Food Harvest 2020 consultation process were the primary source of data. This study highlights a distinct absence of public health representation in the process, an avoidance of some key public health challenges and the dominance of a ‘business as usual’ approach.en
dc.description.sponsorshipIrish Research Council (Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationKenny, T., Cronin, M. and Sage, C. (2017) 'A retrospective public health analysis of the Republic of Ireland's Food Harvest 2020 strategy: absence, avoidance and business as usual', Critical Public Health, 28(1), pp. 94-105. doi: 10.1080/09581596.2017.1293234en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09581596.2017.1293234
dc.identifier.endpage105
dc.identifier.issn1469-3682
dc.identifier.issn0958-1596
dc.identifier.issued1
dc.identifier.journaltitleCritical Public Healthen
dc.identifier.startpage94
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/3832
dc.identifier.volume27en
dc.identifier.volume28
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09581596.2017.1293234
dc.rights© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Public Health on 01/03/2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/ 10.1080/09581596.2017.1293234en
dc.subjectPublic health policyen
dc.subjectAgricultural policyen
dc.subjectPolicy processen
dc.subjectFood industryen
dc.subjectDiet-related healthen
dc.titleA retrospective public health analysis of the Republic of Ireland's Food Harvest 2020 strategy: absence, avoidance and business as usualen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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