Brief

The power of public food procurement to deliver for climate

author(s)

Hunter, Danny

themes
  • Food environment and consumer behavior
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Hunter, D., Nehring, R., Schneider, S., Gelli, A., Swensson, L., Torregroza, G., Mitchell, A., Milani, P., Santos, K., Noegroho, A., Purnama, K.A.W. and Sujarwo, W. 2025. The power of public food procurement to deliver for climate. CGIAR Issue Brief Series for Informing COP 30. Montpellier, France: CGIAR. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/177663

Public food procurement, including school meal programs, is increasingly recognized by governments and international organizations as a powerful policy to deliver social protection while also improving environmental outcomes, such as biodiversity, climate adaptation, and mitigation.

Countries use different approaches to public food procurement, with some designing them to achieve multiple positive benefits — environmental, social, and economic.

Brazil and Indonesia are two countries with emerging approaches for public food procurement based on their intentionality to expand reach of feeding people, mostly children, and to address other positive environmental, social, and economic outcomes.