Public Sector Food Procurement Supply Chains leading to School Meals: The case of Yorkshire

TY - BOOK

T1 - Public Sector Food Procurement Supply Chains leading to School Meals

T2 - The case of Yorkshire

AU - Doherty, Bob

PY - 2023/1/5

Y1 - 2023/1/5

N2 - Utilising public procurement as a way to transform the sustainability of the foodsystem holds great potential, especially when focussing on school meals suppliedby local authority catering services. This transformative change can impact youngpeople far into their futures, sparking their interest in this topic and teaching themfundamental and valuable lessons about food, sustainability and health from ayoung age. To fully harness this opportunity, unpacking and mapping out publicfood procurement supply chains that lead to school meals is crucial. Learning aboutthe factors that shape and influence this part of the food system, as well as howeach of the members of the supply chains influence and interact with each other iskey. Learning about the barriers, enablers and contracts that dictate how the systemworks leads to a deeper understanding that allows for relevant and importantsolutions to be formed. Our current knowledge of how public food procurementworks is limited so this research aimed to address this gap in knowledge.

AB - Utilising public procurement as a way to transform the sustainability of the foodsystem holds great potential, especially when focussing on school meals suppliedby local authority catering services. This transformative change can impact youngpeople far into their futures, sparking their interest in this topic and teaching themfundamental and valuable lessons about food, sustainability and health from ayoung age. To fully harness this opportunity, unpacking and mapping out publicfood procurement supply chains that lead to school meals is crucial. Learning aboutthe factors that shape and influence this part of the food system, as well as howeach of the members of the supply chains influence and interact with each other iskey. Learning about the barriers, enablers and contracts that dictate how the systemworks leads to a deeper understanding that allows for relevant and importantsolutions to be formed. Our current knowledge of how public food procurementworks is limited so this research aimed to address this gap in knowledge.

KW - food procurement

KW - School food

U2 - 10.5281/zenodo.7505711

DO - 10.5281/zenodo.7505711

M3 - Commissioned report

BT - Public Sector Food Procurement Supply Chains leading to School Meals

ER -