Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 140–194 June 2016 *Community Review Article – Draft. Please provide comments by Sept. 6th, 2016 by clicking here. For criteria, please click on the Community Review button on the home page. Community Review Article A little regulatory pluralism with your counter- hegemonic advocacy? Blending analytical frames to construct joined-up food policy in Canada Rod MacRaea and Mark Winfielda aAssociate Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University (
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[email protected]) Contents Introduction The complexity of food policy change The context for food policy change in Canada The place of the food movement Frames for understanding the food system General policy change frameworks to draw on 1. The pace of change: incrementalism vs. punctuated equilibrium/policy windows 2. Drivers/causes of change (interplays of ideas; institutions; interests; physical, technological, environmental and economic factors) 3. Perspectives from complexity thinking: path dependence and transitions 4. Regimes/governance models Cases 1. International agreements: trade and its effects across multiple government levels on local/sustainable food production 2. Federal legislative change is the primary focus: Agricultural pesticides 3. Provincial policy and programme design: Integrating food into primary health care 4. Municipal joined up policy – charters, action plans, food policy councils Conclusion ISSN: 2292-3071 140 CFS/RCÉA MacRae Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 140–194 June 2016 *Community Review Article – Draft. Please provide comments by Sept. 6th, 2016 by clicking here. For criteria, please click on the Community Review button on the home page. Introduction Canadian food policy is deficient in many ways. First, there is neither national joined-up food policy, nor much supporting food policy architecture at the provincial and municipal levels1 (for details, see MacRae, 2011).