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Public food procurement as a game changer for food system transformation

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Title Public food procurement as a game changer for food system transformation
 
Creator Swensson, Luana
Hunter, Danny
Tartanac, Florence
Schneider, Sergio
 
Subject climate change adaptation
food systems
biodiversity
gender
agricultural policies
sustainable development goals
adaptación al cambio climático
sistemas alimentarios
biodiversidad
 
Description The last decade has seen various countries, regions, and cities from low-income to high-income economies develop public food procurement (PFP) initiatives designed to use government purchasing power and regular demand for food as a policy instrument to promote sustainable development. These initiatives—often also referred to as institutional food procurement, including school meals programmes and purchase of food for public hospitals, prisons, universities, public building cafeterias, and other social programmes— have been increasingly recognised as an important entry point to trigger more sustainable food systems and healthy diets. They are also an important instrument for the achievement of target 12.7 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): “to promote public procurement practices that are sustainable in accordance with national policies and priorities”.
 
Date 2021-08
2021-08-13T08:56:42Z
2021-08-13T08:56:42Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Swensson, L.; Hunter, D.; Tartanac, F.; Schneider, S. (2021) Public food procurement as a game changer for food system transformation. The Lancet Planetary Health 5(8) p. E495-E496. ISSN: 2542-5196
2542-5196
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/114631
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00176-5
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Open Access
 
Format p. e495-e496
application/pdf
 
Publisher Elsevier BV
 
Source The Lancet Planetary Health