Funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.3, Theme 10.
Funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.3, Theme 10.
The right to food as social right
Coordinator
Unveils the economic determinants of food choice and management focusing both on consumers’ behaviour - also considering the perceived value of food - and on companies’ practices and decision processes.
Aims to widen current knowledge to grasp how dietary choices are affected by social and cultural elements including believes and norms, such as injunctive and subjective norms.
Basing also on inputs from Spoke 1 new quality requirements for public procurement will be developed: a) implement interplay between public bodies, consumers and selected providers; b) opportunities to networking and partnership among local selected providers to innovate and rebalance typical market-oriented rationales; c) test consumer attitude towards the resultant dietary patterns enhancing balance between supply and consumption.
Building on task T7.2.3 and WPT7.3, and considering regional differences, this task will develop a set of policies aiming to promote a transition towards healthy and sustainable diets within schools focusing on local and culturally acceptable products and on the promotion of the values of the Mediterranean diet.
Production of a set of policy-oriented guidelines and set of recommendations based on: (a) current national and international evidence-based; (b) findings and inputs from all tasks and activities, especially WP7.2, WP7.3 and Task 7.3.3; (c) proposals to modify existing legislation; (d) feedback from stakeholders and policymakers.
Report on economic determinants of consumers’ sustainable and healthy food choices (M30)
Report on social determinants of consumers’ food management choices (M32)
Development or implementation of at least one six-month/one-year-long pioneering public procurement model (targeting schools, universities, hospitals, other) (M36)
Strategic guidelines for the implementation of innovative nutrition and lifestyle educational models in public education institution (M36)
Technical report + dissemination document on policy recommendations (M36)
Approaching the “right to food” implies to acknowledge a plurality of concepts as: food security, food sovereignty, food safety, food quality, food adequacy. The national European and international law on this subject is wide and not clearly defined. The aim of this project is to evaluate If the “right to food” is an existing, effective and guaranteed social right.
Another line of research is the topic of gender discrimination. Many researchers from various disciplines study the gender gap linked to the issue of proper nutrition.
The aim of the research is to study gender discrimination regarding: a) the possibilities of accessing healthy, safe and adequate food; b) the possibilities of accessing the resources of international cooperation; c) the role of women in the transmission of values and traditions through food.
