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Keywords: food; activism; geography; hunger; marketplaces EN food activism geography hunger marketplaces 468 473 6 02/04/22 20220301 NES 220301 Tangires, Helen (2019). In 2020 and 2021, food media consumers accustomed to a steady diet of recipes, restaurant reviews, and celebrity chef profiles were confronted like never before with a much different kind of food-related storytelling. She argues that while twenty-first century food activists are focused on the issue of food "quality", most of the organizers she studied were concerned only with "whether people have food at all" (241). Although Baics does an impressive job detailing how the modes of urban food procurement were structured and restructured, he does not tease out the implications of the fact that food is not just another commodity. [Extracted from the article]

This article posits the development of a healthier food choice app as a means of contributing to facilitating nutritionally superior food selection among indigenous Australians living in remote communities. A significant health gap exists between indigenous and non-indigenous people in Australia. Further, indigenous Australians living in remote communities carry a significant and disproportionate share of this gap. One contributor to poor health is poor nutrition: current food consumption in remote communities is a diet dominated by highly processed foods and characterized by high levels of sugar, refined cereals, and low intake of fruit and vegetables coupled with excessive sodium intake and deficiency in a number of micronutrients. Employing two marketing-based concepts, the dual processing model of nutritional labeling and habit, as the basis for the development of a healthier food app, we contend that a food choice app has the potential to disrupt habitual behavior and generate new learning about healthier food choices in remote indigenous communities. The app would be based on the George Institute’s FoodSwitch app, which enables users to scan barcodes of food products at the point of purchase and determines if the food item is a healthy choice and otherwise suggests healthier alternatives. The proposed app would utilize existing imagery used by the Jimmy Little Foundation, a not-for-profit organization working in remote indigenous communities promoting healthier food and lifestyle practices, and would provide information in a culturally appropriate and clearly communicated form. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]