Farm to School Program Participation: An Emerging Market for Small or Limited-Resource Farmers?

Thompson, Olivia M.; Twomey, Mary Pat; Hemphill, Michael A.; Keene, Kristin L.; Seibert, Nikki; Harrison, Drew J.; Stewart, Kendra

doi:10.1080/19320248.2013.873008

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“…While the most important PGI and PDO can count on a structured and organized supply system and on huge amounts of standardized products that fit the PSFP's needs, the local supply is mostly based on fragmented and individualized activities. Until now, the local supply does not meet the public-private procurement requirements in terms of quality, availability and cost-effectiveness (Lehtinen, 2012;Thompson et al, 2014;Risku-Norja and Løes, 2016), but the local supply can more easily be valorised in direct relations with consumers (Filippini et al, 2016). The increasing inclusion of local supply may also be hampered by the difficulty of local public managers to interpret the European regulation on free competition (Morgan, 2008).…”

Section: Discussion and Policy Remarksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable school food procurement: What factors do affect the introduction and the increase of organic food?

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Public School Food Procurements (PSFPs) are recognized as drivers of food and nutrition security. In the last decade, researchers and institutions have focused on designing sustainable school food procurements that include organic food. This study examines the public food procurement system in 524 of the 1554 municipalities of Lombardy in Northern Italy. A Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial model is used to explore the factors affecting the initial adoption and the increase of organic food in PSFP at the regional level. Four sets of factors are investigated, including territorial indicators, market constraints, PSFP's management and governance and concern for local and certified origin products. The results show that the initial introduction of organic food correlates with higher population density and bigger farms in the area and strongly depends on pressure from municipal administrations and canteen committee for environmental sustainability and youth health. However, the introduction of organic food often must be driven by the initiative of catering service management and must take into account municipal policies to support the local production and certified origin products. Conversely, the adoption intensity increases when PSFP is managed by private companies and stakeholder pressure is strong, although the adoption intensity can be adversely affected by higher perceived costs of organic products when compared to conventional products. This analysis thus confirms the importance of the participation of local stakeholders in designing more sustainable PSFP. The analysis also provides local stakeholders with a systematic dataset at the regional scale regarding the factors that drive sustainable choices in PSFP. The analysis thus supports institutions and policy-makers in coordinating the alignment between food demand and supply in order to better address the sustainability.

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Sustainable school food procurement: What factors do affect the introduction and the increase of organic food?

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“…Part of the rationale for these investments is due to a major perceived barrier for increasing sales to schools: complex supply chain networks required for school delivery (Vogt and Kaiser, 2008; Roche et al , 2015; Matts et al , 2016; Becot et al , 2017). Previous research found that farm sales to schools and institutions are limited due to challenges with supply chain logistics and regulations (Ohmart, 2002; Izumi et al , 2010; Dimitri et al , 2012; Thompson et al , 2014). Schools have noted a wide range of barriers to purchasing local products, including limited selection and unreliable supply due to seasonality, unreliable delivery, food safety concerns and additional labor and time for procuring product (Motta and Sharma, 2016).…”

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School districts and their local food supply chains

Christensen

Jablonski

O’Hara

2017

Renew. Agric. Food Syst.

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The 2015 Farm to School Census reports that during the 2013–2014 school year there were over 5200 farm to school (FTS) programs in the USA that involved 39,000 schools and 24.1 million children. These FTS programs are intended, in part, to increase market access and therefore the viability of farms and ranches. Accordingly, the majority of FTS programs involve local food procurement directly from farmers, from non-traditional suppliers that market locally branded food products such as ‘food hubs’, or from traditional suppliers such distributors and food service management companies. Yet, there is reason to believe that transaction costs vary based on the supply chain that schools use to procure local food. Moreover, that the supply chain that schools use to procure local food has a relationship with school's expenditures on local food. We use the 2015 Farm to School Census to estimate the relationship between school district's local food expenditures per student and supply chain structure. We analyzed data using ordinary least squares regressions, controlling for the region of the USA, the type of local food products purchased, and other school-specific characteristics. Importantly, we find a negative and significant relationship between school district's non-milk local food expenditure per student, and purchases directly from the farm and from non-traditional suppliers. This implies that schools that purchase local food from traditional distributors are likely to have higher on average expenditures per student compared with schools that purchase local food directly from farmers or non-traditional distributors. Results point to the need for additional research in determining the efficacy of policies to support direct and non-traditional FTS marketing arrangements.

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“…Several novel strategies have been put forth by leading global organizations to reduce poverty via organizing various programmes, developing effective institutional infrastructures, providing funding, ensuring a better distribution of funds, removing policies with an urban bias, enhancing the income of poor or poverty-stricken people, etc. Various initiatives relevant to 'farm to school' programmes and taking care of the overall welfare of farmer families have helped tremendously to enhance the health of young people (nutritional quality of life and managing childhood obesity) and farming communities (Ehlert et al 2014;Levy et al 2015;Thompson et al 2014). However, there is a lack of supporting evidence to prove and establish a direct link between agriculture and poverty.…”

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Food Sustainability Challenges in the Developing World

Bhat

2017

Sustainability Challenges in the Agrofood Sector

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Farm to School Program Participation: An Emerging Market for Small or Limited-Resource Farmers?

Cited by 17 publications

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Sustainable school food procurement: What factors do affect the introduction and the increase of organic food?

Sustainable school food procurement: What factors do affect the introduction and the increase of organic food?

School districts and their local food supply chains

Food Sustainability Challenges in the Developing World

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