Fig. 8

Contrasting socio-ecological models of nutrition and agency. (a) The individual-centric view emphasises the individual, whose behavioural agency drives interactions with the social community, corporations and government activities. (b) The system-centric view emphasises the food environment as a system shaped by the logic of market economics. The overall system shapes government and corporate activities, and generates structural associations between different socio-economic groups (shown by red or green filled circles), whose biological drives are exposed to contrasting nutritional experience through the life-course