Reply To: Sustainable procurement

This Infographic & report by @Leah Galvin, CF could assist you.

In May and June of 2022, Leah attended meetings and did site visits in the USA, Canada, England, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland as part of a Churchill Fellowship. She was researching models and approaches that increase the procurement by public institutions of local, healthy and/ or sustainable food and summarises her findings here:

Governments have few sources of leverage over increasingly globalized food systems – but public procurement is one of them. When sourcing food for schools, hospitals and public administrations, Governments have a rare opportunity to support more nutritious diets and more sustainable food systems in one fell swoop,” – @Olivier De Schutter United Nations Special Rapporteur on The Right to Food (2014)