“How School Lunches Can Help Sustain the Whole Planet”
by: Linda Elswick, International Partnership for Sustainable Agriculture (IPSA)
Food has a crucial role to play in advancing the sustainable development agenda. Food production and consumption affect our individual and communal health, the integrity of our eco-systems, our quality of life. Hence, political intervention on the various stages of the food chain means addressing multiple forms of deprivation.
Throughout the world, governments are beginning to discover the development potential of PUBLIC FOOD systems, especially in relation to school food, which is increasingly seen as a strategy that can contribute to food security, childhood education and market access for farmers. Both the Curry and Obesity Reports in the iUnited Kingdom highlighted the potential role of public pro-procurement for re-localizing the agri-food sector and addressing health issues.
Development strategies that emphasize the inter-dependence of economy, society and nature, have the offer diverse benefits over a range of issues. It is hoped that the delegates this year recognize this, especially in relation to school food systems and offer concrete support to such programmes both in the developing and developed world.
Kevin Morgan and Roberta Sonnino, University of Cardiff, focus on food as a crucial planning and development tool, to be discussed on the opening day of the CSD from 3-6 in CR 6.
REPRINT FROM “Outreach Issues”, May 4, 2009
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