Supermarkets provide the majority of food to consumers in the Western world and are therefore an excellent site for research into food environment interventions. However, such interventions can be hard to research and implement due to the misalignment of public health and commercial priorities, as well as difficulties with brokering relationships between supermarkets and researchers. This paper distils the experience of several studies to provide specific recommendations for conducting high quality research with commercial retail chains.

This policy briefing produced by the EU Food Policy Coalition provides an evidence-driven review of how food environments - i.e. the physical, economic, political and socio-cultural context in which people make decisions about consuming food - shape food demand. It argues that food environments are key to transforming the food system, by making healthy, sustainable foods the options that are the most available, accessible, affordable, enjoyable and widely promoted.

The journal Human Geography has released a special issue on “radical food geography praxis”. It is based on a workshop held in conjunction with the 2019 American Association of Geographers’ (AAG) Annual Meeting.