Public food procurement (PFP) programmes have been receiving increasing attention as an
important policy instrument with the potential to deliver multiple benefits for multiple …

Local food has been the subject of federal, state, and local government policies in recent
years throughout the United States as consumer demand has grown. Local foods have been …

Increasingly, policymakers are setting ambitious goals for sustainability in public
procurement, integrated across different pillars. Such ambitions are apparent in public …

This paper describes a research project, carried out in an Italian public school, to assess
whether parents were willing to take part in food procurement decisions, as well as their …

Title: Biodiversity, food and nutrition: a new agenda for sustainable food systems/edited by
Danny Hunter, Teresa Borelli and Eliot Gee. Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY …

Background Food availability, access, and utilization are the three pillars of food security
and need to be aligned in order to support a healthy population. United States (US) fisheries …

As United States colleges and universities have developed campus projects to contribute to
alternative food networks, strategies have matured from event-based, on-ramp activities to …

Abstract Excerpts from the Executive Summary: The US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
supports a growing range of farm to school activities in which schools work with local or …

Emphasis on local foods and local food systems has often meant that the importance of
other scales goes unrecognized or underappreciated. While each scale has limitations …

Introduction In recent years, there has been a growing recognition that public canteens can
play an important role in supporting the transformation toward sustainable food systems and …