A few months ago I wrote a blog post regarding innovations needed to progress towards Action Track 1 of the UN Food Systems Summit (Ensure access to safe and nutritious food for all). I focused on school meal procurement, outlining the importance of healthy and sustainable procurement for child health and development.
While back in Scotland for a few weeks over Summer, I was excited to read that a local supermarket in Glasgow has partnered with East Ayrshire Council to supply organic food for school meals. Not only will children eat fresh, locally sourced food, this initiative will also support the local economy and the biodiversity of Scotland (See tweet below).
With COP26 coming to Glasgow later this year, I am proud to watch Scotland showing what we can do to tackle the ‘global syndemic’ of undernutrition, overweight and climate change (Swinburn et al., 2019).
Reference
Swinburn, B.A., Kraak, V.I., Allender, S., Atkins, V.J., Baker, P.I., Bogard, J.R., Brinsden, H., Calvillo, A., De Schutter, O., Devarajan, R. and Ezzati, M., (2019). The global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change: the Lancet Commission report. The lancet, 393, 10173, 791-846.
For further reading on school meal procurement please visit my previous blog post and the references in the Bibliography