The Sustainable Food Laboratory

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The Sustainable Food Laboratory

• Paul Winter
• The Salzburg Seminar
• April 2005

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Project Goals

• The Food Lab will deliver by June 2006
• A strong tri-continent partnership working
  together to make global food systems healthier
• A set of high leverage, mainstream initiatives
  created by this partnership that have already
  been prototyped and piloted and have produced
  results
• Carefully documented learning about how cross
  boundary partnerships can highly complex societal
  challenges

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The Seminar

• Salzburg Seminar 3rd Meeting - 2 Year Project
• Six Teams - Business Coalition - Latin American
  Farmers Food Services Initiatives - Sustainable
  Fisheries Commodities and
  Investments - Framing
• Food for Health, Learning and Livelihoods

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The Team ..Food for Health, Learning and
Livelihoods
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Team Goals.

• Accelerate movement of healthy and fresh foods
  into schools and healthcare facilities
• Shift institutional food culture to one that
  values the experience of food as integral to
  health, learning and living
• Help build an efficient, more sustainable supply
  chain from the local and international levels for
  high quality food

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Action

• Create momentum ...Call to Action .
  collaborative partnerships to inspire ambitious
  projects and policy changes to shift food budgets
  to healing and learning
• Create a trisectoral platform to share
  experiences, build the evidence base for change,
  and improve practices in procurement and supply
  chains

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Effect to mainstream food supply...

• It responds two sources of deep concern
  children and health
• To lead health and education institutions to have
  a pivotal role in shifting the paradigm
• Supply infrastructure created around these
  transformed markets will drive supply and reduce
  costs
• It will change the food policy environment

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Next Steps

• Convene a core group meeting in US representing
  Key Stakeholders (hospitals,food
  services,education etc)
• Organise core group meeting in the EU
• Propose transatlantic learning activities
• Pursue funding for work in the US and EU and the
  transatlantic work

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Advantages..
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London Hospital Food Group

• Product sourcing - Local Suppliers
• Events - Day of Choice and Brompton Breakfast
• Organic Meat and Real Chicken Nuggets
• Organic Milk - To be available at all four
  hospitals

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Closer to home - SLaM

• Organic Milk to be supplied at 3 main hospital
  site from July
• Scotch Bonnet Ethnic Meal Production from Mid -
  July
• Fresh Farm Produce now delivered direct to
  Lambeth
• Organic Fruit and Vegetables - Weekly Staff Shop
• Developing a business case for a CPU for the
  Trust
• New Menus at Bethlem and Maudsley offering
  healthy options