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Policies for encouraging healthier food choices

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  • Céline Giner
  • Jonathan Brooks

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What is the role of government policies in encouraging healthier food choices to fight the current overweight and obesity epidemics? This report briefly examines the evidence base on unhealthy diets, including the associated burden on health systems. It then takes stock of current knowledge on the effectiveness of policy instruments to tackle unhealthy diets and proposes a four-track policy approach to encourage healthier food choices that is consistent with wider objectives for the food and agriculture sector. This policy approach includes demand side public interventions, voluntary collaboration with the food industry at the supply-demand interface, firmer regulations when public-private incentives are misaligned, and fiscal measures. This report underscores the importance of a robust evidence base for developing effective policies, which in turn requires investments in effective data systems. The Annex takes stock of how well developed food data systems are currently across a range of OECD countries and provides some recommendations on how to move forward.

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  • Céline Giner & Jonathan Brooks, 2019. "Policies for encouraging healthier food choices," OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers 137, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:agraaa:137-en
    DOI: 10.1787/11a42b51-en
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    1. Marta Kozicka & Petr Havlík & Hugo Valin & Eva Wollenberg & Andre Deppermann & David Leclère & Pekka Lauri & Rebekah Moses & Esther Boere & Stefan Frank & Chris Davis & Esther Park & Noel Gurwick, 2023. "Feeding climate and biodiversity goals with novel plant-based meat and milk alternatives," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-13, December.
    2. Alexander J. Stein & Marcelo Lima, 2022. "Sustainable food labelling: considerations for policy-makers," Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, Springer, vol. 103(2), pages 143-160, June.
    3. Jonathan Brooks & Céline Giner, 2021. "What Role Can Agricultural Policies Play in Encouraging Healthier Diets?," EuroChoices, The Agricultural Economics Society, vol. 20(3), pages 4-11, December.
    4. Thai H. Le & Marta Disegna & Tim Lloyd, 2023. "National Food Consumption Patterns: Converging Trends and the Implications for Health," EuroChoices, The Agricultural Economics Society, vol. 22(1), pages 66-73, April.
    5. Jonathan Brooks, 2023. "Agricultural policies and food systems: Priorities for indicator development," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 74(1), pages 3-23, February.

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    Keywords

    data systems; food chain; food choices; health policies; obesity; overweight;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • C90 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - General
    • M38 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Marketing and Advertising - - - Government Policy and Regulation

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