ABSTRACT
We have seen how there are clear tensions in the policy framework of food and health. The Productionist paradigm is fast eroding, not just on human and environmental health grounds, but also on hard economic grounds. It is not yet clear how the food supply chain will finally adapt and respond to the health crisis or which of the other two paradigms will replace it. The terrain is fissured by the competing areas for policy, business and science and what their roles should be. As ever, the relationship between evidence and policy formulation is problematic, and some elements of policy are being pursued without or despite evidence; others are strong in evidence but not strongly supported by policy consensus and actions. A period of experimentation is underway in which new solutions to this crisis are being proposed by the corporate sector, agriculture and NGOs, and social movements vie with advocates of corporate responsibility to win the battle for consumer culture and state attention.
