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- Title
Opportunities for and Limits to Cooperation between School and Families in Sustainable Public Food Procurement.
- Authors
Pagliarino, Elena; Santanera, Elena; Falavigna, Greta
- Abstract
This paper describes a research project, carried out in an Italian public school, to assess whether parents were willing to take part in food procurement decisions, as well as their ability to accurately predict what foods children would pick at school lunch and their propensity to support sustainable food choices made by the school. The methodology included a questionnaire, issued to 500 parents, and an in-depth study of 138 child/parent pairs. The study comprised: (i) presentation of an innovative recipe in the weekly menu of the school canteen; (ii) meal observations of children's intake at school lunch during the week of the menu modification; (iii) collection of both parents' and children's reports on their choices of recipes from the modified weekly menu. The results are commented in light of two important changes that have recently affected Italian public school food procurement: the opening of school canteens to lunches brought from home and the measures adopted since 2020 to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Both events go in the direction of delegating to parents the multifaceted role of the school in the food arena. The article concludes that the results of the study should discourage this approach.
- Subjects
GOVERNMENT purchasing; COVID-19 pandemic; PARENTS; SCHOOL food; CHILD nutrition; LUNCHEONS
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2021, Vol 13, Issue 16, p8808
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su13168808