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Developing and Implementing Sustainable Food Purchasing Policy

Developing and Implementing Sustainable Food Purchasing Policy. Food Service – An Engine for Food System Change. Institutional food purchasing at mission-driven orgs Universities & colleges Hospitals and healthcare Schools. Why a Sustainable Food Purchasing Policy?.

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Developing and Implementing Sustainable Food Purchasing Policy

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  1. Developing and Implementing Sustainable Food Purchasing Policy

  2. Food Service – An Engine for Food System Change • Institutional food purchasing at mission-driven orgs • Universities & colleges • Hospitals and healthcare • Schools

  3. Why a Sustainable Food Purchasing Policy? • Farm to college projects initiatives across North America • Success in building awareness, educating, rallying support • But . . . Projects have limitations • Economic • Environmental • Institutional

  4. Food Policy: The 85% Solution • Benefits of moving from project to policy • Institutionalization of initiatives • Creates framework to support RFPs, contracts • Rationalizes incentives for change of suppliers • Addresses some supply chain challenges • Provides clear path and sets expectations for ramp-up

  5. The Sustainable Food Purchasing Policy Guidance Project

  6. The Policy Guidance Project • 3 Primary Objectives • Collect and share sample policies and language • Outline policy options and implications for institutions and food system • Share insight on development process, implementation and evaluation

  7. Sustainability? Economy Community Environment

  8. Locally Grown Foods Family Farms & Minority Owned Businesses Labor Conditions Animal Welfare Sustainable Agriculture Toxicity – Pesticides & Health Antibiotics & Hormones Genetically Modified Organisms Soil and Water Conservation Wildlife Habitat

  9. Covering the Policy Bases Getting Started Developing a Vision Assessing Opportunity Benchmarking Setting goals Communicating expectations Securing Commitments Evaluating Progress Looking to the Future

  10. Getting Started • When is the right time for policy? • Start from a point of project success • Ensure adequate stakeholder involvement • Garner support from institutional leaders and key stakeholders

  11. Developing a Vision • What are our priority concerns? • Consider the full range of issues • Don’t mistake means and ends

  12. Assessing Opportunity • Understand the system, capacity limits of institution and partners to establish strategies • What is possible? • What are the easy wins? • Where can we make a real difference? • Who do we need to engage?

  13. Benchmarking • How do we define success? • Adopt definitions • Determine how to evaluate claims • Identify baseline of how institution is currently performing

  14. Setting Goals • Where are we going? • How fast can we get there?

  15. Communicating Expectations • General communications • RFP / RFQ • Competitive bid process – weighting sustainability

  16. Securing Commitments • Contracting with service providers and suppliers • Reporting requirements • Rewards • Penalties

  17. Assessing Progress • Evaluating reports and progress • How frequent? • Who will be involved?

  18. Looking to the Future • Mid-stream course corrections • New opportunities • New goals

  19. Some Preliminary Guidance Be specific in defining standards Watch out for problematic terms Understand the difference between 1st, 2nd and 3rd party claims

  20. Some Preliminary Guidance Think carefully about expectations for monitoring and verification. Who will have responsibility for assessing and reporting compliance?

  21. Some Preliminary Guidance Tie your objectives to the institutional mission Take a holistic approach to policy Ex: don’t separate health and environment concerns

  22. Sustainable Food Purchasing Policy Information • Project status report • Interviews complete • Begun assessing the findings • Complete policy guidance document available by end of 2006. • www.sustainablefoodpolicy.org

  23. Panelist Introductions • Loel Solomon, Kaiser Permanente • John Turenne, Sustainable Food Systems • Jamie Moore, Eat’n Park Hospitality Group

  24. Covering the Policy Bases Getting Started Developing a Vision Assessing Opportunity Benchmarking Setting goals Communicating expectations Securing Commitments Evaluating Progress Looking to the Future

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