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“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...

“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...

“The procurement model [..] represents an opportunity to provide children with fresh, local and culturally appropriate food contributing to nutrition and food security. It’s at the same time an opportunity to support small local farmers and...

“If we work together with the health sector and other sectors, it’s easy to provide very nutritious and healthy products in schools” - Meti Tamrat

Release of “Pathways to advance agroecology – overcoming challenges and contributing to sustainable food systems transformation” by the Swiss National FAO Committee (CNS-FAO).

UN Food Systems Summit opened the floor to governments, farmers, youth, women and indigenous groups, scientists and civil society to uncover innovations to transform food systems.

This year, the 45th edition of UNSCN Nutrition, examines the complexity of the digital world for improved nutrition.

Canada’s International Development Research Centre is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity, catalyzing changes in food systems and enable healthy and sustainable diets in Eastern Africa.

New discussion paper from UNSCN - "Urban-Rural Linkages for Nutrition. Territorial approaches for sustainable development"

Harmonizing actions for the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition and the UN Water Action Decade.