Recommendations from the Eating Better
alliance for livestock’s role within a sustainable
food and farming system for a post-Brexit UK, including public sector food procurement.

This study aims to determine the facilitators and the barriers to adoption and implementation of green purchasing policies in local governments.

This report represents the outcomes and recommendations of an initiative, A Plan for Public Procurement: Food and Catering Services set out to identify key areas where British public procurement could be improved

The measures and actions suggested in the guide aim at reducing the environmental impact associated to municipal purchasing by promoting more efficient resource consumption, purchase of ecological services, eco-innovation and environmental management systems.

The assessment carried out in this study provides results on the applicability of ongoing initiatives and shows how they contribute to the European Commission´s Action Plan on the Circular Economy.

The Green Deal is a three-year initiative in the Netherlands designed to help encourage the purchase of circular goods, which was supported by Rijkswaterstaat and REBus. The report outlines the work of 45 public and private sector participants to identify how best to use the procurement process to shape more circular processes.

This research finds that successful social value procurement evaluation frameworks share the following characteristics: a clear articulation of the end-goal, a transparent and consistent process for gathering baseline data can be aggregated to provide a broader picture of SVP impacts.

The purpose of this document is to support Member States in translating their national school food standards related to health and nutrition into food procurement specifications.

This report examines the state of sustainable public procurement (SPP) policies and practices undertaken by national governments worldwide in the last five years.