The School Food Revolution: Public Food and the Challenge of Sustainable Development

254 Pages·2008·1.256 MB·English

by  Kevin Morgan, Roberta Sonnino

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The School Food Revolution
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The School Food
Revolution
Public Food and the Challenge of
Sustainable Development
Kevin Morgan and Roberta Sonnino
London • Sterling, VA
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First published by Earthscan in the UK and USA in 2008
Copyright © Kevin Morgan and Roberta Sonnino, 2008
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ISBN 978-1-84407-482-2
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Morgan, Kevin.
The school food revolution : public food and the challenge of sustainable
development / by Kevin Morgan and Roberta Sonnino.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-84407-482-2 (hardback)
1. School children—Food. 2. School children—Nutrition. I. Sonnino, Roberta.
II. Title.
LB3475.M67 2008
371.7'16—dc22
2008019749
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For school food reformers –
cooks and caterers, governors and teachers,
buyers and suppliers, parents and politicians –
who are striving to change the way our children eat
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Contents
List of boxes, figures and tables ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction xiii
1 Public Food and Sustainable Development: Barriers and
Opportunities 1
2 Procurement Matters: Reclaiming the Public Plate 21
3 Fast Food Nation? Reinventing the School Lunch Programme in
New York City 43
4 School Food as Social Justice: The Quality Revolution in Rome 65
5 A Sustainable World City? School Food Reform in London 89
6 Beyond the City: The Rural Revolution in School Food Provision 113
7 Home-Grown: The School Feeding Revolution in Developing
Countries 137
8 Sustainable Development and the Public Realm: The Power of the
Public Plate 165
Index 223
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List of Boxes, Figures and Tables
Boxes
2.1 The most common barriers to sustainable procurement 41
3.1 New York City School Food Department 52
4.1 A family’s business: The Budoia school meals model 70
5.1 The benefits of responsible procurement in London 99
5.2 Delivering healthy schools in London 102
5.3 How the Feed Me Better campaign happened 107
6.1 An example of Carmarthenshire’s weekly menu in primary
schools 124
6.2 The Food for Life recommendations for school meals 129
6.3 Creative procurement in practice: East Ayrshire’s quality criteria
for the awarding of the school meal contract 131
7.1 The Millennium Development Goals 150
7.2 The WFP food procurement process 155
8.1 LACA survey reveals major downturn in secondary school meals 172
8.2 WFP letter of appeal to government donors to address critical
funding gap 187
Figures
2.1 OGC guidance for managing the procurement process 29
4.1 Seasonality 74
4.2 Territoriality 75
4.3 Amount of food ingredients served daily in Rome’s schools 76
5.1 Sample school menu in Greenwich 108
6.1 A sample menu of school meals in South Gloucestershire’s
primary schools 117
6.2 A tuck menu in South Gloucestershire 118
7.1 Food aid policy 146
7.2 Multi-level governance of the Ghana School Feeding Programme 160
8.1 Advertisement for a public procurement training course 192