Framing Food Security in the EU

Authors

  • Lucian Balanuta "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18662/lumenpses/7.1/30

Keywords:

food, security, policy, framing, newsworthiness

Abstract

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has drastically disrupted food chains, threatened global population well-being and raised the prospect of a collapse in agri-food-related realms across the world. Food security has once again become a major source of worry and a top priority on the European public agenda. The public sphere has experienced a revival of this notion and relevant actors are calibrating their communication strategy around this concept. Despite being recognized as having one of the most effective systems for ensuring the quantity and the quality of food, the European Union has started to communicate constantly on issues of food security. Pan-European press, such as Euractiv, has begun to devote particular attention to this subject. The objective of this paper is to identify European media patterns of the concept of food security and to classify useful interpretation grids that meet newsworthiness criteria, using framing theory, in order to observe how they functions in relation to communication purposes. It uses an exploratory approach with quantitative and qualitative methods for a fruitful understanding of the concept within broader notions of the mass communication process.

Author Biography

Lucian Balanuta, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania

Assistant Lecturer PhD, Faculty of Letters - Journalism and Communication Sciences, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania

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2022-08-25

How to Cite

Balanuta, L. (2022). Framing Food Security in the EU. Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Political Sciences & European Studies, 7(1), 46-71. https://doi.org/10.18662/lumenpses/7.1/30

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