Public food procurement as a game changer for food system transformation
Open accessAbstract
The last decade has seen various countries, regions, and cities from low-income to high-income economies develop public food procurement (PFP) initiatives designed to use government purchasing power and regular demand for food as a policy instrument to promote sustainable development.1 These initiatives—often also referred to as institutional food procurement, including school meals programmes and purchase of food for public hospitals, prisons, universities, public building cafeterias, and other social programmes— have been increasingly recognised as an important entry point to trigger more sustainable food systems and healthy diets.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
GPP of food has been recognized as an important policy tool to promote sustainable and healthy food systems.
“GPP of food has been recognized as an important policy tool to promote sustainable and healthy food systems Swensson et al. (2021) and Stein et al. (2022).”
From Analysis of Croatian public procurement notes: Green public procurement as a strategic tool to encourage sustainable food production (2024) · cites this paper as Swensson et al. (2021)
Public food procurement, including in schools, hospitals and other public institutions, represents a significant portion of public sector budgets.
“Public food procurement, including in schools, hospitals and other public institutions, represents a significant portion of public sector budgets Krivašonoka (2019) and Swensson et al. (2021).”
From Analysis of Croatian public procurement notes: Green public procurement as a strategic tool to encourage sustainable food production (2024) · cites this paper as Swensson et al. (2021)
Leveraging public food purchasing power can drive positive changes in local and regional food markets towards more sustainable and equitable practices.
“Leveraging this purchasing power can drive positive changes in local and regional food markets towards more sustainable and equitable practices (Stein et al., 2022; Swensson et al., 2021; Xie et al., 2022).”
From Analysis of Croatian public procurement notes: Green public procurement as a strategic tool to encourage sustainable food production (2024) · cites this paper as Swensson et al., 2021
Cites
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026
(2026) · FAO · doi:10.4060/cd8306en · Cited by 3,770 · see citing works
Flagged first, then by citations
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Public food procurement from family farming: A food system and social network perspective
Gaitán-Cremaschi, D., Klerkx, L., Aguilar-Gallegos, N., Duncan, J., Pizzolón, A., Dogliotti, S., & Rossing, W. A. H. (2022) · Food Policy · doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2022.102325 · Cited by 50 · see citing works
Fonseca, C. V. C., Proença, Y., Luna, I., & Saes, M. S. M. (2025) · Food Policy · doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102856 · Cited by 7 · see citing works
Perica, M. (2024) · Journal of Infrastructure Policy and Development · doi:10.24294/jipd10881
- Authors
- Swensson, L. F. J., Hunter, D., Schneider, S., & Tartanac, F.
- Affiliations
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (IT)
- Alliance Bioversity International - CIAT (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Swensson, Luana F J
- Venue
- The Lancet Planetary Health
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-08
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- e495-e496
- ISSN
- 2542-5196 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3187822298
- Cited by
- 51
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 3
- FWCI
- 3.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- The Lancet Planetary Health (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Public Procurement and Policy
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Consumer behavior in food and health
- Keywords
- public food procurement, institutional food procurement, food system transformation, sustainable food systems, food policy, healthy eating
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
