Why must Public Sector Food Procurement Lead?

1 in 4 of us eat a public sector meal each day in the UK and £2.6Billion/year of tax payers money is spent on the sector's catering.

Yet, with long, opaque supply chains predominating the industry, insufficient visibility exists for the harm being done.

Dynamic Food Procurement can bring short supply chain transparency and enable informed choices for procurers.

The need to act could not be more urgent. Historically, where public sector goes in food supply chain innovation, the private sector follows.

CAN FOOD PROCURERS COOL THE WORLD?

Yes, by both reducing meat on the menu and replacing grain-fed intensively reared meat with native breed, extensively reared, pasture-fed meat, procurers can substantially impact the level of warming gases in the atmosphere. This is one way food procurers can cool the world.

It's in the Soil 

The soil contains twice as much carbon as the atmosphere and three times as much as trees. 

Agroecological production approaches can increase the humic acid needed in soil in order to store more carbon.

Such approaches can almost half the emissions associated with unsustainable intensive farming.

If we eliminate waste, agroecological farming can feed Europe. Procurers with supply chain transparency can make informed choices about their produce procurement.

If food waste were a country, it would be the third biggest emitter of
greenhouse gases behind the USA and China

- CAIT, 2015, Climate Data Explorer. World Resources Institute

Short supply chains have fewer intermediaries. 

Reduce intermediaries, reduce waste.