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SKL Kommentus (Sweden) sustainable procurement programme declaration

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Welcome to the first edition of the Sustainable Public Procurement and Ecolabelling project newsletter!The SPPEL newsletter will keep you updated, on a bi-annual basis, with the progress and development of the UNEP SPPEL project which aims at...

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United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Ecolabelling Network will develop an updated ecolabelling handbook and training programme to improve the understanding of the ecolabelling concept, policies, and operational set-up for all...

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“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...

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“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...

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‘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...

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“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...

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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...

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“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...