Buy locally, buy quality: sustainability in public food procurement
date: 19/05/2017
Project: Strengthening European Food Chain Sustai...
acronym: Strength2Food
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In the Strength2Food project, 30 partners in 15 countries have joined forces to analyse the leverage of quality and procurement policy for the creation of shorter, more sustainable food supply chains.
“We have three main objectives,” says project coordinator Matthew Gorton of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the United Kingdom. “One is to improve the effectiveness of the EU’s food quality schemes – the ones associated with protected designations of origin. The second is to improve the effectiveness of public sector food procurement. And the third is to stimulate the development of short food supply chains.”