Building an Airplane While Flying It: One Community's Experience with Community Food Transformation

Sands, Catherine; Stewart, Carol; Bankert, Sarah; Hillman, Alexandra; Fries, Laura

doi:10.5304/jafscd.2016.071.012

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“…I worked directly on its food procurement advocacy campaigns, including those related to sustainable poultry procurement and antibiotics in animal agriculture. Such participatory methodology is not uncommon in these reflective essays or in articles about institutional food procurement (Klein & Michas, 2014;Sands et al, 2016). To supplement my observations, I also analyzed food procurement data collected by the University of California's health systems from 2018 to 2022, which are published in public Annual Sustainability Reports put out by the University.…”

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Sustainable food procurement by the University of California’s health systems: Reflections on 10 years and recent COVID-19 challenges

Thottathil

2022

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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Across the country, hospitals are buying more sustainable food and passing internal policies in support of sustainable food procurement. This reflective essay describes the results of the sustainable procurement goals and policy of the University of California’s five health systems from 2009 to 2021. Based on my observations as a staff person in the University of California and my participation in internal meetings with foodservice and sustainability staff, I discuss the evolution of the University of California’s sustainable food procurement policy goals and its definition of “sustainable.” I describe staff and programmatic support for purchasing environmentally sustainable food and beverages and the growth of the University of California’s sustainable food purchases as a percentage of its hospitals’ food budgets. This essay also explores staff debates about the sustainability of sourcing poultry with the label of “no antibiotics ever” after a 2020 COVID-19 outbreak at a poultry processing facility in California that led to the deaths of several workers. These debates about labor and working conditions in poultry supply chains from the five University of California health systems offer insights into ongoing challenges and opportunities for institutional food procurement and policy to change the food system utilizing existing supply chains and third-party certifications and label claims. The University of California’s experiences also illustrate the ongoing need for farm-to-institution and farm-to-hospital efforts to better integrate values around working conditions in supply chains into sustainable procurement goals.

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Sustainable food procurement by the University of California’s health systems: Reflections on 10 years and recent COVID-19 challenges

Thottathil

2022

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“…I worked directly on its food procurement advocacy campaigns, including those related to sustainable poultry procurement and antibiotics in animal agriculture. Such participatory methodology is not uncommon in these reflective essays or in articles about institutional food procurement Sands et al, 2016). To supplement my observations, I also analyzed food procurement data collected by the University of California's health systems from 2018 to 2022, which are published in public Annual Sustainability Reports put out by the University.…”

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2022

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On our cover: Kanoa Dinwoodie (at right), the owner and operator of organic-certified Feral Heart Farm in Sunol, California, shows children how to properly harvest blackberries. Kanoa specializes in seed production and diasporic Asian crops. He participated in the "agroecology encounters" research described in author Antonio Roman-Alcalá's commentary in this issue, "Five practical strategies for those who work for food systems change."

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“…Many FPGs struggle to build a diverse membership (Bassarab et al, 2019;Boden and Hoover, 2018;Sands et al, 2016). For example, workers across the food chain, Indigenous peoples, and anti-racism groups are often missing in FPG membership.…”

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Mapping Food Policy Groups

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Over the past decades, there has been a rapid expansion in the number of Food Policy Groups (FPG) (including food policy councils, strategies, networks, and informal alliances) operating at municipal and regional levels across North America. FPGs are typically established with the intent of bringing together food systems stakeholders across private (e.g., small businesses, industry associations), public (e.g., government, public health, postsecondary institutions), and community (e.g., non-profits and charitable organizations) sectors to develop participatory governance mechanisms. Recognizing that food systems challenges are too often addressed in isolation, FPGs aim to instill integrated approaches to food related policy, programs, and planning. Despite growing interest, there is little quantitative or mixed methods research about the relationships that constitute FPGs or the degree to which they achieve cross-sectoral integration. Turning to Social Network Analysis (SNA) as an approach for understanding networked organizational relationships, we explore how SNA might contribute to a better understanding of FPGs. This paper presents results from a study of the Thunder Bay and Area Food Strategy (TBAFS), a FPG established in 2007 when an informal network of diverse organizations came together around shared goals of ensuring that municipal policy and governance supported healthy, equitable and sustainable food systems in the Thunder Bay region in Ontario, Canada. Drawing on data from a survey of TBAFS organizational members, we suggest that SNA can improve our understanding of the networks formed by FPGs and enhance their goals of cross-sectoral integration.

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Building an Airplane While Flying It: One Community's Experience with Community Food Transformation

Cited by 6 publications

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Sustainable food procurement by the University of California’s health systems: Reflections on 10 years and recent COVID-19 challenges

Sustainable food procurement by the University of California’s health systems: Reflections on 10 years and recent COVID-19 challenges

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