“We need to take into account that the food system is a complex system, mainly due to its connection to a variety of policy fields, like [..] agriculture, environment, energy, health, education, infrastructure and so on. So this aspect implies that...
“Using indigenous African vegetables has a lot of value. At the end of the day, actually all this group of top people who are equivalent of Ministers, they are County Ministers from the County of Busia, they were the first champions to begin to eat...
“The government is a really big buyer, so [it] can use the strength to propose new and necessary patterns toward healthier and more sustainable parameters. Especially when we are talking about children and fundamental guarantees such as food security...
“Healthy is usually equated to expensive, but in Quezon City we were able to discover that it’s a matter of thinking outside of the box and thinking ‘how much more can I do with my food? How much do I value what I put inside my body? How much do I...
‘The Power of the Public Plate’ Podcast explores the stories of champions of public food procurement. Brought to you by the UN One Planet Network and ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, each episode unpacks how public authorities from...
Making reliable claims and applying the ‘Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information’ were the main objectives of this training workshop which took place online on 8 November 2021
The supplement applies the Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information to the topic of chemicals in products and discusses how information on chemicals could be better presented and integrated into product sustainability claims.
“It’s important to link the procurement with some of the teaching, and that’s why I brought the potato to one of the conferences. It was just to show that often you forget what it is that we’re talking about: it’s just served on the plate, you eat it...
