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Table 2

Nurturing transformative food environment literacy with participatory research

Constituents of literacy	How participatory research can nurture food environment literacy
Reflexive literacy Individual capabilities and motivations to explore food environments	Create space for reviewing and sharing personal findings with others Plan facilitation to support individual and collective reflection Provide support for observation of food environment in public places Provide competence and support to participants as co-researchers
Critical literacy Collective understanding of the elements in the lived food environments which condition eating	Acknowledge the identity and shared values of the participants in the planning of research In facilitation be attentive to both positive and negative aspects of social cohesion amongst the participants Support sharing of observations with diverse participants to give rise to novel critical thoughts
Transformative literacy Engagement within the socio-political setting and the institutional actors to address the problems of lived food environments	Engage collaborators already in the early phases of the research Be attentive to inclusion and exclusion in the development of solutions Support participants in connecting theír lived experience to the institutional context Utilize multiple means for the expression for results to acknowledge the varying capabilities of participants Invest time in follow-up and after-care Foster long-term partnerships for transformative research

Constituents of literacy	How participatory research can nurture food environment literacy
Reflexive literacyIndividual capabilities and motivations to explore food environments	Create space for reviewing and sharing personal findings with others Plan facilitation to support individual and collective reflection Provide support for observation of food environment in public places Provide competence and support to participants as co-researchers
Critical literacyCollective understanding of the elements in the lived food environments which condition eating	Acknowledge the identity and shared values of the participants in the planning of research In facilitation be attentive to both positive and negative aspects of social cohesion amongst the participants Support sharing of observations with diverse participants to give rise to novel critical thoughts
Transformative literacyEngagement within the socio-political setting and the institutional actors to address the problems of lived food environments	Engage collaborators already in the early phases of the research Be attentive to inclusion and exclusion in the development of solutions Support participants in connecting theír lived experience to the institutional context Utilize multiple means for the expression for results to acknowledge the varying capabilities of participants Invest time in follow-up and after-care Foster long-term partnerships for transformative research