#Foodprocurement shapes the EU's health, resilience & sustainability. Yet 60% of contracts go to lowest price.

Ahed of tomorrow's #FoodDialogue, the @eufpc.bsky.social is calling on the EU to recognise food as strategic & make sustainable food the easiest choice.

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Sustainable #foodprocurement is underutilised across the EU, with 60% of contracts going to lowest bid. We need to recognise food as strategic & make sustainable food the easiest choice through, among others, mandatory criteria for organic in the new public procurement directive. #FoodDialogue

Welsh Schools Serving Up to 99% Imported Chicken from Asia and South America The Scale of Import RelianceChildren in Merthyr Tydfil schools are eating chicken that has traveled nearly 6,000 miles from Thailand...

Welsh Schools Serving Up to 99% Imported Chicken from Asia and South America #ChickenImports #FoodProcurement #localsourcing

Tennessee Agriculture lays out commodity-planning timeline, urges districts to document missing USDA Foods Tennessee Department of Agriculture staff told school food-service directors on a department webinar that the commodity planning worksheet will be posted by mid-January and is due March 1. Presenters explained procurement and processing attestations, the entitlement calculation (TMAC lunches × $0.45), and the DOD Fresh produce signup; they asked LE

Tennessee's Department of Agriculture is set to unveil a crucial commodity planning worksheet that could reshape how schools manage their food procurement—are you ready for the changes?

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#TN #CitizenPortal #CivicAccountability #FoodProcurement #TennesseeAgriculture

Montana Legislature mandates food procurement reporting for contracts over $100K Legislature requires vendors to report food purchases including local products starting in 2025

A groundbreaking bill in Montana could transform state food procurement by mandating transparency and boosting local agriculture, but it’s stirring up controversy among lawmakers and vendors alike.

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#MT #CitizenPortal #FoodProcurement #LocalEconomy #MontanaAgriculture

Two people weighing pears in a fruit bin during a backyard harvest. From the cover of Vol. 6 No. 1 (2019): Special Issue: Food procurement in which you will find, “The public plate in the transnational city: Tensions among food procurement, global trade and local legislation.”

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#FoodProcurement #GlobalTrade #LocalFood #LocalFoodAct #LocalFoodSystems #LandGrabbing #MunicipalLand #LandUse #CapeBreton #Discourse #Ecological #EthicalConsumption #EthicalFood #OrganicFood #Caring #Canada

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