San Francisco Public School District Adopts Good Food Purchasing Program Press Contact: Gentle Blythe San Francisco Public Schools May 25, 2016 (San Francisco, Ca)– The San Francisco Board of Education voted unanimously to adopt the Good Food Purchasing Program (GFPP), a metric based framework and set of tools that guides organizations to direct their [...]
The Next Wave for Good Food Pete Huff Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Every day of the school year, more than 80,000 meals are served in the cafeterias of the Minneapolis and St. Paul Public School Districts—that’s over 1.3 million meals a year. While these school districts are two of the largest in [...]
Tracking the Ripple Effects of LA’s Good Food Purchasing Program Alexis Stephens Policy Link In 2012, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) — the largest school district in the nation — shifted its food purchasing processes to promote equitable food systems, healthy eating, and the local economy. This shift was made possible [...]
Shaping Food Policy From The Ground Up Mark Winne Lexicon of Food The older I get, the more I’ve come to believe in the power of democracy and the role of an engaged food citizenry. Likewise, experience has taught me that when we let money and the marketplace pursue their own ends unfettered, the [...]
Can the Foodie Trend Also Help Food Workers? Michelle Chen The Nation. What your community eats is based on what feeds into your social system. In Los Angeles, on one end of the food chain, in goes massive regional agricultural production, the labor of more than a million workers, and a transnational [...]
LA School District Uses Its Spending Power to Support Local Farms, Workers’ Rights, and Kids’ Nutrition J. Mijin Cha YES! Magazine We face two equally urgent and significant crises: rising inequality and climate change. Rising inequality is not only morally unacceptable; it also hinders economic growth. Climate change is already impactingevery part of [...]
L.A. Unified's local food push is healthy for area economy too Teresa Watanabe Los Angeles Times The savory smell of nutmeg and cinnamon wafts through the Azusa bakery, where dozens of workers in blue gloves and hairnets cook up L.A. Unified's newest star product. The "Glorious Morning" muffin is chewy and moist, [...]
