The Center’s quarterly webinar, “Institutional Procurement: A Path Toward Food System Resilience”, featured speakers from UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology, Health Care Without Harm, and Center for Good Food Purchasing. Speakers discussed their organizations role in the purchasing of local, sustainable foods in hospitals, universities, and other large institutional settings. Presentations focused on organizations’ role in implementing procurement criteria and scoring, such as Center for Good Food Purchasing Scoring System, addressing challenges through multi-stakeholder equitable collaboration with community partners, such as HCWH’s Anchors in Resilient Communities Initiative, and the importance of effective data tracking systems to provide institutions data as a value proposition.
