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Instituting Change: An Overview of Institutional Food Procurement and Recommendations for Improvement

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Farm to Institution

Authors: Claire Fitch and Raychel Santo

This report reviews the literature and key information resources regarding institutional food service procurement systems, presents the potential benefits of a large-scale shift among institutional procurement policies, discusses some of the existing barriers to the adoption of policies that favor regionally and/or sustainably produced food, and provides recommendations and tools for influencing institutional food procurement practices