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City food procurement is an investment in our planet


City food procurement is an investment in our planet - CityTalk - ICLEI

The ambition of this strategy is to create more sustainable and nutritious public meals, reduce waste, and increase the organic farming area, ...

Kate MacKenzie on LinkedIn: City food procurement is an ...

Food Sustainability - Why There Is a Need for Change? In a world where the global population is rapidly expanding, the demand for food is ...

Tia S. on LinkedIn: City food procurement is an investment in our ...

The theme of this year's #EarthWeek is “Invest in Our Planet”, and this work starts with our food purchases. Alongside Kate MacKenzie, Betina Bergmann…

Sustainable public food procurement: criteria and actors' roles and ...

The public sector, which procures large quantities of food, has a crucial role in steering toward more sustainable food systems. More empirical ...

Healthy public food procurement and service policies

Existing public budgets need to be allocated in different ways, to stimulate production of more nutritious foods, increase their availability ...

Good Food Values - Center for Good Food Purchasing

Vibrant and resilient regional economies allow communities to regain power in decision-making about their local food system and the land that ...

The transformative potential of public food procurement, supporting ...

Food systems play a crucial role in shaping the health of our planet. From production to consumption, they influence environmental sustainability, public health ...

Sustainable Food Purchasing

Communities across North America are building momentum in the movement for fresh, healthy food, which makes food policies—especially sustainable food ...

Bridging the Gap with public sector food | Sustain

Yet, food that is good for the people and the planet is currently more expensive than food that is bad for health and the environment. We want to change ...

How food procurement shifts can help meet sustainability goals

Procurement for the Planet: How food procurement shifts can help meet sustainability goals. 48 views · Streamed 10 months ago ...more ...

Six lessons from transforming city food systems - Medium

City governments have significant purchasing power which can be leveraged to nudge food systems in the right direction. They have the authority ...

Sustainable Food Procurement policies to improve the production ...

Food Procurement can also act for the promotion of alternative food production systems such as urban farming, which includes all types of ...

Student Perspective: The Impact of Values-Based Procurement on ...

A new report shows that 20% of the city's greenhouse gas emissions come from food consumption, making it the third largest source of emissions ...

A GOAL WITHIN REACH - EU Food Policy Coalition

... food procurement is that only the cities who are well ... This programme brings many environmental benefits - the proportion of organic food in the City of.

Our Work - Center for Good Food Purchasing

The Good Food Purchasing Program provides a metric based, flexible framework that encourages large institutions to direct their buying power toward five core ...

Evaluating Food Procurement against the EAT-Lancet Planetary ...

Shifting institutional procurement towards the planetary health diet is a strategy set forth by the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, a global network of ...

The Power of Procurement - The Rockefeller Foundation

Transitioning from a 'lowest cost' to a 'best social value' paradigm maximizes public good from every food dollar and prioritizes underserved farm and food ...

Power of procurement: Food service and government

Furthermore, governments can catalyze a sustainable and just food system transformation by leveraging their substantial purchasing power to ...

Researchers Investigate the Promise of Food Procurement

Public food procurement plays a critical role in feeding many people worldwide, particularly children from food insecure households. Further, it ...

Climate-Friendly Food in Government Purchasing Archives

Public institutions can leverage this massive food purchasing footprint to mitigate climate change, advance racial equity, protect public health, improve ...