Foodlinks Conference "Public Procurement of Sustainable Food" - Presentations now online

The Foodlinks Community of practice (CoP) Revaluing Public Procurement held a day long conference - "Public Procurement of Sustainable Food" at City University London, on Thursday 10 May 2012.

Conference speakers reflected on past experience, the current situation and also on the ways forward for public procurement of sustainable food in the UK. This included UK projects and campaigns on public sector food procurement as well as school food, new initiatives in England and Scotland, the Olympics and more. The day ended with a panel discussion and questions from the conference participants.

The conference was well attended by people working across the spectrum of public sector food procurement and provided opportunities to share learning, experiences and ideas about how to revalue food procurement in both the UK and across Europe.

The work of the CoP recognises that new forms of collective learning are required in which public procurement practitioners, academics, policy-makers and civil society organisations work together to effect real change and we hope that the conference has already created some new networks for knowledge exchange between these groups and look forward to helping to build these networks over the coming months.

Further information

Contact

Julie Smith, City University London

Links

• Foodlinkcommunity.net: Papers presented at the conference "Public Procurement of Sustainable Food"
• Foodlinkcommunity.net: Community of practice (CoP) Revaluing Public Procurement
• Foodlinkcommunity.net: Conference programme (75 KB)

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