... most previous research has explored the views of health professionals and parents and investigated the marketing strategies marketers use to capture children’s attention, there is a lack of research on how children themselves engage with food advertising. Hence, this chapter will discuss how children...

...This chapter charts the rise of community concerns over child-directed food marketing for the first time in the Australian context. During the 1970s and 1980s, psychologists started expressing great concerns about children being vulnerable because, due to their limited cognitive skills, they cannot...

...’, and ‘low’ and ‘high’ ( Vaughn, 1980 ). Food and beverages fall under quadrants 3 and 4 of the FCB grid (i.e., ‘low involvement’). Food is a low-involvement product. Yet for some food items, a facts-oriented rational approach works well, whereas for other food items, emotional appeal could be more useful...

...There is a correlation between the intended and unintended effects of advertising. Food and beverage marketing influences children’s desires for the advertised products, encourages pester power, and excessive consumption. Repeated exposure to food advertising enhances brand and advertisement recall...

...In recent years, childhood obesity has become a significant problem in Australia. Statistics show that about one-quarter of Australian children aged 5–17 years are overweight or obese. Almost 35% of Australian children’s daily energy intake comes from non-core foods (processed foods such as cakes...

...Viral marketing refers to the promotion of products by ‘word of mouth’, often through digital or electronic platforms ( Calvert, 2008 ; McGinnis et al., 2006 ). Food marketers use viral marketing to increase product sales and, therefore, consumption of unhealthy foods. Viral marketing creates...

...This chapter investigates the extent and nature of children’s exposure to web-based media food marketing on food and beverage brands’ websites and Facebook pages. By introducing a social media ban for under-16-year-olds, the Australian Government is taking a reasonable step to prevent users aged...

...Given the children’s exposure to advertising of unhealthy food on digital platforms, Crossbench MP Dr Sophie Scamps, a former GP and emergency room doctor, has introduced the Healthy Kids Advertising Bill. The bill proposes new regulations on advertising unhealthy food, including a ban...

...Purpose: Food retailers are increasingly held responsible for their societal impacts. So far, literature addressing the challenges of sustainable production and consumption sustainable development goal (SDG 12) has predominantly focused on environmental conditions in production. Social...

...The introductory chapter is organised around three basic areas: firstly, food has significant political and economic dimensions the model of integral sustainable development. Despite the global profitability of the food system, the challenges of food (in)security are important topics at the global...

...Food and customs related to eating are marked by the cultural and social context. In many cultures, certain types of food are taboo. The border between purity and impurity, sanctity and religious prohibition/repulsion towards certain foods is a powerful symbol for emphasising the dichotomy...

...The rationing of food in the UK lasted from 1940 to 1954. The rationing campaign does not sit in isolation; it forms a part of the early behavioural campaigning of the UK Government in the early 20th century when the Government successfully launched several campaigns focussed on behavioural change...

...Abstract Many businesses offering food to tourists are missing out on a large section of the travelling public. By failing to understand the needs of tourists with specific dietary requirements, they are effectively making their tour, restaurant, hotel, or venue a ‘no go’ option for thousands...

...Abstract Many in Generation Z are concerned about health, nutrition, and lifestyle. They are sensitive to the social determinants of health, represented through concerns about access to health care, viable and affordable housing, poverty, and unemployment. They are also concerned about food...

.... The chapter interweaves reports from the schools, training institutions, and government; highlights from the programs; Indigenous foodways and recipes; and highlights on how such culinary education and training programs can help provide ways toward food sovereignty. Indigenous culinary cook skilled trades...

... render service learning ineffective and, at worst, potentially harmful to the community served. This chapter presents a course that uses food as a civic lens through which to engage community, instructors, and students in CRITICAL-SERVICE-LEARNING where systemic inequities that contribute to community...

...Abstract This chapter presents a typology, a comprehensive overview and a deconstruction of food counterfeits. In this chapter, common targets, defined by type of commodity, supply chain (node) and location, are identified based on incident reports and vulnerability assessments in global food...

... and meaning are flexible and how a building may transform the character within it both psychologically and physically. Gothic renaissance digestion food The Faerie Queene hill house Introduction English literature is full of fantastical versions of human-made space, many of which seek to understand...

... (UN SDGs), with a specific focus on public health systems, food security, peace or conflicts resolutions, gender diversity, state effectiveness, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), poverty alleviation, foreign direct investment (FDI), trade and its facilitation, environmental sustainability...

... of organizing commitment narratives temporality food Introduction Organization and management scholars are increasingly interested in gaining an understanding of “grand challenges,” defined as multidisciplinary “barrier(s) that, if removed, would help solve an important societal problem with a high...