How to successfully challenge and transform public school-food programs to emphasize care, justice, and sustainability, with insights from eight countries across the Global North and South.
School food programs are about more than just feeding kids. They are a form of community care and a policy tool for advancing education, health, justice, food sovereignty, and sustainability. Transforming School Food Politics around the World illustrates how everyday people from a diverse range of global contexts have successfully challenged and changed programs that fall short of these ideals. Editors Jennifer Gaddis and Sarah A. Robert highlight the importance of global and local struggles to argue that the transformative potential of school food hinges on valuing the gendered labor that goes into caring for, feeding, and educating children.
Through accessible and inspiring essays, Transforming School Food Politics around the World shows politics in action. Chapter contributors include youths, mothers, teachers, farmers, school nutrition workers, academics, lobbyists, policymakers, state employees, nonprofit staff, and social movement activists. Drawing from historical and contemporary research, personal experiences, and collaborations with community partners, they provide readers with innovative strategies that can be used in their own efforts to change school food policy and systems. Ultimately, this volume sets the stage to reimagine school food as part of the infrastructure of daily life, arguing that it can and should be at the vanguard of building a new economy rooted in care for people and the environment.
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- Title
- Transforming School Food Politics around the World
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Author(s)
- Jennifer E. Gaddis, Sarah A. Robert
- Published
- 2024-05-28
- Edition
- 1
- Format
- eBook (pdf, epub, mobi)
- Pages
- 360
- Language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 0262548119
- ISBN-13
- 9780262378802
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Book Homepage
- Free eBook, Errata, Code, Solutions, etc.
1: A Whole Systems Approach to School Food Policy in Japan 2: Centering Children, Health, and Justice in Canadian School Food Programs 3: School Food Politics, Identity, And Indigeneity in the Peruvian Amazon 4: Sustainable Food Education in Finnish Schools Through Collaborative Pedagogy 5: Rebel Ventures and Youth- Led Food Initiatives in the United States 6: Creating a Mobile Method to Nourish Children in the United States With the “Yum- Yum Bus” 7: Local and National Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States 8: Civil Society Activism and Government Partnerships in India 9: Cooperative and Small- Scale Farming Through Brazil’S National Procurement Standards 10: Agroecology and Feminist Praxis in Brazilian School Food Politics 11: Direct Urban- Rural Supply Chains for South Korean Communities 12: Using Storytelling in the United States to Build Empathy for Change 13: Facilitating Think Tanks to Guide Action and Advocacy in Canadian Teachers’ Unions 14: The Center for Ecoliteracy’s Approach to School Food Systems Change in the United States 15: Developing Solidarity Coalitions for Universal School Meals and Local Food in the United States