Where does your food come from?

In this issue we are pleased to have a contribution that delivers a thoughtful commentary on the disconnection between US agricultural and nutrition policy. In his commentary, Professor Griffin, Director of the Agriculture, Food and Environment Program at Tufts University, describes the context from which current agricultural and nutrition policies emerged and the circumstances that now place them at odds with each other. He also discusses how the linkage between agricultural and nutrition policies might be strengthened at the local, regional and national levels. As Professor Griffin emphasizes, there is currently no meaningful linkage between agricultural and nutrition policy in the USA, but the means to improve this linkage are available. His examples of existing and possible linkages at the local, regional and national levels are based in a unique familiarity with both agriculture and policy environments in the USA, and are worth further discussion. Ultimately, agricultural policy governing food sources and nutrition policy guiding food consumption should not be at odds, and ideally we should all be able to receive a satisfactory answer to the question, ‘Where does your food come from?’