Food and nutrition security discursive frames in the context of the Spanish economic crisis

• DOI: 10.1007/s12571-016-0574-x
• Publication Date: 2016-05-06T18:15:31Z
• Authors: Dionisio Ortiz-Mi...; Olga Moreno Pérez; Eladio Arnalte Al...
• Keywords: 2. Zero hunger; Economic crisis; 1. No poverty; ECONOMIA, SOCIOLOGIA Y POLITICA AGRARIA; 12. Responsible consumption; Food and nutrition security; 03 medical and health sciences; Frame matrix. Media analysis. Food and nutrition security. Spain. Economic crisis; 0302 clinical medicine; Spain; Media analysis; Frame matrix

This research is part of the project "Assessment of the impact of global drivers of change on Europe's food security" (TRANSMANGO), granted by the EU under 7th Framework Programme, theme KBBE.2013.2.5-01, Grant agreement no: 613532. Authors gratefully appreciate the comments and suggestions made by the three anonymous reviewers and the editors of the Journal.O<br/>[EN] The recent economic crisis in Spain has provoked a number of food and nutrition security (FNS) impacts that have fuelled a fragmented landscape of food-related debates, although these have not taken the form of a coherent and allembracing public discussion on national food security. This paper is an inductive analysis of such debates, mostly based on media coverage, in an attempt to disentangle the different discourse frames on FNS in Spain, and the role played by the economic crisis in the shaping and underpinning of such frames. For this purpose a frame matrix was constructed, paying particular attention to the stakeholders governance claims in order to confront frame-specific problems. Results show how stakeholders have used elements of the crisis to underpin or reinterpret their core arguments. In addition, governance claims have concentrated on the malfunctioning of the food chain, mostly due to unequal bargaining power, and the way this could be putting at risk crucial components of the food system and future FNS. Also, the short-termism of most stakeholders approaches obscures the long run threats to the Spanish food system.<br/>