builds on a case study of food procurement in Brazil, which intended to improve the quality of food used in public schools … smallholders to citizen-consumers. Findings – The efforts to promote quality food procurement worked to shape reflexive governance …

obesity. Nineteen previous publications examined issues around supply of and/or demand for regional food procurement by … evaluation about regional food procurement. Accounts of seven farmer cooperatives or networks indicate that institutional … regional food procurement are support of the local economy and increased access to fresh and nutritious food. Barriers …