Catering

The catering service industry is strongly related to stressors on the right to adequate food and nutrition of final beneficiaries and complex global supply chains involving food sourcing. Some developments have been made in order to shorten supply chains to make more inclusive ones involving local suppliers.

Relevant advances globally in the procurement of catering services

  • Action Framework for Developing and Implementing: Public Food Procurement and Service Policies for a Healthy Diet. 2021

    This policy developed by the WHO establishes nutrition criteria to increase the availability of foods and beverages that promote healthy diets, and/or limit or prohibit the availability of foods and beverages that contribute to unhealthy diets. It provides and overview of how to develop or enhance, implement, and assess compliance with healthy public food procurement and service policy. It is intended to be used by government policy makers or managers working on public food procurement.

  • Aligning policy and legal frameworks for supporting smallholder farming through public food procurement: the case of home-grown school feeding programmes. December 2018

    This working paper published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) sets how and why standard public procurement rules and practices may represent a barrier to the implementation of public food procurement initiatives designed to support smallholder farmers and their organizations. It also includes a discussion on how such alignments can be made focusing on the use of preferential procurement schemes and provides a comparative analysis of the experiences of various countries including Brazil, US, Paraguay and France.

  • Report: City Food Policy citizens, farmers and workers- Enhancing inclusion, innovation and sustainability in food planning. 2014

    This report developed by Eating City and other organisations presents summary of workshops held in Rome during March 2014 in which experts explored key issues surrounding public policy and procurement food systems to include local food chain actors and develop local and inclusive economies.

Some Developments from the Private Sector that can be useful for Public Buyers

  • Addressing Forced Labor Risks in Supply Chains: Risk Exposure and Efforts Undertaken by Asian Food and Beverage Companies. 2020

    KnowTheChain. In its third benchmark on the sector, KnowTheChain assessed 43 of the largest global food and beverage companies, including seven Asian companies, on their efforts to address forced labor in their supply chains. This report focuses on the findings of Asian companies.

  • Food and Beverage Benchmark Findings Report. 2020

    KnowTheChain. Assessment of the 43 largest global food and beverage companies on efforts to address forced labor in their supply chains.

  • Food and Beverage Benchmark Findings Report. 2018

    KnowTheChain. Assessment of the efforts of 38 global food and beverage companies to address forced labor risks in their supply chains.