School Nutrition, Food Procurement, & Equitable Community Development
Advances in school nutrition policy help provide more K-12 students with a range of healthy and affordable foods. Food served in schools is important to individual student health and can affect community health throughout the entire food system. Nutritional and budget considerations drive many of the choices school districts make regarding what food is served in schools. However, the complexity of the food system offers opportunities for advancing health equity by focusing not only on the nutritional quality of food served in schools, but also the sourcing practices of those foods. Providing access to nutritious food in K-12 institutions that is sourced in alignment with the values of food justice* and racial equity* can promote overall health and well-being for students and communities. In this Praxis Brief, we highlight how nutrition policy and procurement in K-12 institutions can advance health, justice, sustainability, equity, and community power.
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Suggested citation: The Praxis Project (2020, September). School Nutrition, Food Procurement, & Equitable Community Development. Retrieved from http://thepraxisproject.org/resource/2020/school-nutrition-procurement-and-equitable-comm-dev