DOI: 10.19830/j.upi.2020.299
The Significances, Issues, and Challenges of Food Environment Research

Peng Ke, Liu Jianyang, Li Chaosu

Keywords: Food Environment; Diet Quality; Food Desert; Food Swamp; Food Mirage; Food Purchase

Abstract:

The impact of food environment, and especially the impact of neighborhood food environment on diet quality suggest the necessity of intervening food environment research by spatial planning. Three important issues in the field of food environment research are proposed, which are food deserts caused by lack of access to fresh and healthy food, food swamp caused by excessive junk food, and food mirage related to food prices and freshness. Four types of challenges and opportunities confronted by the food environment are proposed too, which are interdisciplinary collaborative research on causal chain between food environment and diet quality, not putting too much faith in the market rationality, identifying spatial strategies to improve food enviomment, and self-protection of the food industry.


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