Clayton Megan L, Frattaroli Shannon, Palmer Anne, Pollack Keshia M
Department of Health, Behavior and Society, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway Street, Baltimore, Maryland, 21205, United States of America; The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for a Livable Future, 615 North Wolfe Street, Suite W7010, Baltimore, Maryland, 21205, United States of America.
Department of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway Street, Baltimore, Maryland, 21205, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2015 Apr 9;10(4):e0122870. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122870. eCollection 2015.
Food Policy Councils (FPC) help to identify and address the priorities of local, state, and regional food systems with the goal of improving food systems through policy. There is limited research describing FPCs' strategies for accomplishing this goal. As part of a larger study examining FPC policy efforts, this paper investigates the role of partnerships in food systems policy change. We conducted interviews with representatives from 12 purposefully selected FPCs in the United States and 6 policy experts identified by the selected FPC representatives to document and describe their policy work. One theme that emerged from those interviews was the role of partners. Interviewees described a range of partners (e.g., stakeholders from government, business, and education) and credited FPC partnerships with advancing their policy goals by increasing the visibility and credibility of FPCs, focusing their policy agenda, connecting FPCs to key policy inputs (e.g., local food community knowledge and priorities), and obtaining stakeholder buy-in for policy initiatives. Partnerships were also described as barriers to policy progress when partners were less engaged or had either disproportionate or little influence in a given food sector. Despite these challenges, partnerships were found to be valuable for FPCs efforts to effectively engage in the food policy arena.
食品政策委员会（FPC）有助于确定并解决地方、州和区域食品系统的优先事项，目标是通过政策改善食品系统。描述食品政策委员会实现这一目标的策略的研究有限。作为一项考察食品政策委员会政策努力的大型研究的一部分，本文调查了伙伴关系在食品系统政策变革中的作用。我们采访了美国12个经过特意挑选的食品政策委员会的代表以及这些被选中的食品政策委员会代表所确定的6位政策专家，以记录并描述他们的政策工作。从这些采访中浮现出的一个主题是伙伴的作用。受访者描述了一系列伙伴（例如来自政府、企业和教育领域的利益相关者），并称赞食品政策委员会的伙伴关系通过提高食品政策委员会的知名度和可信度、聚焦其政策议程、将食品政策委员会与关键政策投入（例如当地食品社区的知识和优先事项）联系起来以及为政策倡议获得利益相关者的支持，推动了他们的政策目标。当伙伴参与度较低或在特定食品领域的影响力过大或过小的时候，伙伴关系也被描述为政策进展的障碍。尽管存在这些挑战，但伙伴关系对于食品政策委员会有效参与食品政策领域的努力而言是有价值的。
