Taking sustainable eating practices from niche to mainstream: the perspectives of Swedish food-provisioning actors on barriers and potentials

IF 3.6 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Vishal Parekh, Åsa Svenfelt
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Abstract The food system is a major driver of anthropogenic environmental impacts and in Sweden a sizeable proportion of the country’s relatively large per capita ecological footprint is attributable to food. In short, sustainable eating practices need to become mainstream. Actors within the food-provisioning system likely have valuable insights into how such a transition could be enabled. This article presents the results of a qualitative study that aimed to examine the perspectives of these individuals on such a transition in Sweden using a social practice framework to identify framings of barriers and potentials for mainstreaming sustainable eating practices. We found that conventional framings and models for explaining change and transitions dominate. These approaches center on providing alternative food products, with some attention devoted to normalizing sustainable eating through product design, communication, and marketing. However, exceptions to these strategies include calls for redefining business profitability in terms of human and planetary health and notions of a decentralized food-provisioning system consisting of small-scale actors and limited by the regional and seasonal supply of food. Our analysis suggests that interventions for mainstreaming sustainable eating practices need to move beyond a constrained recrafting of mainstream eating practices and toward systematic practice substitution that favors considerations regarding how eating practices connect to other practices that constitute people’s everyday lives. We conclude by discussing implications for the food-provisioning system and suggest directions for further research that could lead to the development of strategies for mainstreaming sustainable eating practices in Sweden and elsewhere.
将可持续饮食实践从利基到主流:瑞典食品供应参与者对障碍和潜力的看法
食品系统是人为环境影响的主要驱动因素,在瑞典,该国相对较大的人均生态足迹中有相当大的比例可归因于食品。简而言之,可持续饮食习惯需要成为主流。食品供应系统内的参与者可能对如何实现这种转变有宝贵的见解。本文介绍了一项定性研究的结果,旨在研究这些人对瑞典这种过渡的看法,使用社会实践框架来确定可持续饮食实践主流化的障碍和潜力框架。我们发现,解释变化和过渡的传统框架和模型占主导地位。这些方法以提供替代食品为中心,并通过产品设计、沟通和营销来规范可持续饮食。然而,这些战略的例外情况包括要求根据人类和地球健康重新定义商业盈利能力,以及由小规模行为者组成并受区域和季节性粮食供应限制的分散粮食供应系统的概念。我们的分析表明,将可持续饮食习惯主流化的干预措施需要超越对主流饮食习惯的有限重塑,而是朝着系统的实践替代的方向发展,这种替代有利于考虑饮食习惯与构成人们日常生活的其他做法之间的联系。最后,我们讨论了对食物供应系统的影响,并提出了进一步研究的方向,这可能会导致瑞典和其他地方可持续饮食实践主流化战略的发展。
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Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy
Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development
CiteScore
12.00
自引率
0.00%
发文量
54
审稿时长
27 weeks
期刊介绍: Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy is a refereed, open-access journal which recognizes that climate change and other socio-environmental challenges require significant transformation of existing systems of consumption and production. Complex and diverse arrays of societal factors and institutions will in coming decades need to reconfigure agro-food systems, implement renewable energy sources, and reinvent housing, modes of mobility, and lifestyles for the current century and beyond. These innovations will need to be formulated in ways that enhance global equity, reduce unequal access to resources, and enable all people on the planet to lead flourishing lives within biophysical constraints. The journal seeks to advance scientific and political perspectives and to cultivate transdisciplinary discussions involving researchers, policy makers, civic entrepreneurs, and others. The ultimate objective is to encourage the design and deployment of both local experiments and system innovations that contribute to a more sustainable future by empowering individuals and organizations and facilitating processes of social learning.
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