Using quite an expansive definition of institutional diet change advocacy, we identified that two of the 30 EA AWF grants (constituting 0.27% of funding) went to these kinds of activities, compared to six out of 28 MG grants (constituting 11.12% of funding).
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Are institutional diet change advocacy campaigns competitive with other opportunities?
To understand whether this difference constituted a concern, we asked experts for their views on the promisingness of institutional diet change advocacy.
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On existing evidence, some institutional diet change advocacy campaigns can meet a cost-effectiveness bar, but this is not typical.
It’s probable that most of the impact of institutional diet change advocacy runs through direct impact rather than movement building.
Which diet change interventions are more cost-effective than cage-free corporate campaigns? Meaningfully reducing meat consumption is an unsolved problem, and I suspect many diet change interventions are harmful due to leading to the replacement of beef and pork with poultry meat, eggs (which can be part of a vegetarian diet), fish and other seafood.
In any case, I do not think this is that important for your recommendation, as you found only 11.1 % of the money granted by ACE MG went to diet change interventions.
From your evaluation of ACE MG:
Which diet change interventions are more cost-effective than cage-free corporate campaigns? Meaningfully reducing meat consumption is an unsolved problem, and I suspect many diet change interventions are harmful due to leading to the replacement of beef and pork with poultry meat, eggs (which can be part of a vegetarian diet), fish and other seafood.
In any case, I do not think this is that important for your recommendation, as you found only 11.1 % of the money granted by ACE MG went to diet change interventions.