Public food procurement

Morgan, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2933-2231 2025. Public food procurement. Holloway, L., Goodman, M., Maye, D., Kneafsey, M., Sexton, A. and Moragues-Faus, A., eds. Elgar Encyclopedia of Food and Society, Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences series, Edward Elgar, pp. 405-409. (10.4337/9781800887435.00104)

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Abstract

Public food procurement (PFP) plays a unique role in every national agrifood system because it caters for the most vulnerable sections of society – such as school children, hospital patients and prisoners for example – and this means that its social significance is so much greater than its economic status might suggest. This entry argues that the full potential of PFP has yet to be realised because it has been stymied by a neoliberal regulatory philosophy that frames value for money in narrow economic terms. With the advent of a regulatory philosophy geared to sustainability, however, PFP is beginning to be deployed to address the Sustainable Development Goals, which represent values for money in a broad sense rather than value for money in the narrow sense. As well as a more enabling regulatory environment, PFP presupposes that public sector officers have the competence and the confidence to embed social and environmental clauses in their public food tenders to tap the full potential of the power of purchase as a tool for fashioning more sustainable foodscapes.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Edward Elgar
ISBN:	978-1800887428
Last Modified:	04 Nov 2025 14:49
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/180695

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