Ruffini Oriana, Relf Chanel, Mann Davina, Blake Miranda R, Carrad Amy, Reeve Belinda, Barbour Liza, Vanderlee Lana, Vandevijvere Stefanie, Sacks Gary
Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia.
City of Greater Bendigo, Bendigo, VIC, Australia.
Public Health Nutr. 2024 Oct 2;27(1):e191. doi: 10.1017/S136898002400140X.
Local governments have an important role to play in creating healthy, equitable and environmentally sustainable food systems. This study aimed to develop and pilot a tool and process for local governments in Australia to benchmark their policies for creating healthy, equitable and environmentally sustainable food systems.
The Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI), developed in 2013 for national governments, was tailored to develop the Local Food Systems Policy Index (Local Food-EPI+) tool for local governments. To incorporate environmental sustainability and the local government context, this process involved a literature review and collaboration with an international and domestic expert advisory committee ( 35) and local government officials.
Local governments.
The tool consists of sixty-one indicators across ten food policy domains (weighted based on relative importance): leadership; governance; funding and resources; monitoring and intelligence; food production and supply chain; food promotion; food provision and retail in public facilities and spaces; supermarkets and food sources in the community; food waste reuse, redistribution and reduction; and support for communities. Pilot implementation of the tool in one local government demonstrated that the assessment process was feasible and likely to be helpful in guiding policy implementation.
The Local Food-EPI+ tool and assessment process offer a comprehensive mechanism to assist local governments in benchmarking their actions to improve the healthiness, equity and environmental sustainability of food systems and prioritise action areas. Broad use of this tool will identify and promote leading practices, increase accountability for action and build capacity and collaborations.
地方政府在创建健康、公平且环境可持续的食品系统方面发挥着重要作用。本研究旨在开发并试点一种工具及流程，供澳大利亚地方政府用以衡量其创建健康、公平且环境可持续的食品系统的政策。
2013年为各国政府开发的健康食品环境政策指数（Food-EPI）经调整后，为地方政府开发了地方食品系统政策指数（Local Food-EPI+）工具。为纳入环境可持续性及地方政府的实际情况，这一过程包括文献综述以及与一个国际和国内专家咨询委员会（35人）及地方政府官员的合作。
地方政府。
该工具由十个食品政策领域的61项指标组成（根据相对重要性加权）：领导力；治理；资金与资源；监测与情报；食品生产与供应链；食品推广；公共设施和场所的食品供应与零售；社区内的超市与食品来源；食品废物的再利用、再分配与减少；以及对社区的支持。在一个地方政府对该工具进行的试点实施表明，评估过程是可行的，并且可能有助于指导政策实施。
Local Food-EPI+工具及评估流程提供了一种全面机制，可协助地方政府衡量其行动，以改善食品系统的健康性、公平性和环境可持续性，并确定行动领域的优先次序。广泛使用该工具将识别并推广领先做法，增强行动的问责制，并建设能力及促进合作。
