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Abstract
This article explores the development of a food policy body called the Food Alliance and the role of the organization in encouraging the development of food policy that integrates health and ecological issues. The Food Alliance is located within the Australian state of Victoria. A policy triangle is used as a framework to describe and analyse the work of the Food Alliance. Lessons are drawn about effective strategies for influencing integrated food policy. This occurs in a context where food policy typically favours powerful industry and agricultural interests and where relationships between the health and environmental sectors are in their infancy. The implications for planning and organizing a state-wide food policy are explored from the perspective of policy and the ways in which this can be influenced through working with key stakeholders.
Acknowledgements
Contributions: M.C. and R.C. collected data, analysed and wrote first drafts. M.C., R.C., M.L. and K.McC. wrote and commented on subsequent drafts. All were involved in final drafts and amendments.
Funding: None but part of this work was carried out while M.C. was the ‘Thinker in Residence’ at Deakin University, Melbourne March–May 2012.
Conflict of interest: M.C., K.McC. and M.L. were involved in the initial discussion about a food policy council in 2007. M.L. was also involved in the 1987 food and nutrition policy initiative. M.L. was the grant holder for the setting up of the Food Alliance. K.McC. and R.C. are employees of the Food Alliance.