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Sustainable sustenance in school: organic, seasonal and local food agendas stretch the public health debate

Orme, Judy; Jones, Mat; Salmon, Debra; Morgan, Kevin; Morley, Adrian

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Authors

Judy Orme Judy.Orme@uwe.ac.uk
Professor/Ins Director ISHE

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Mathew Jones Matthew.Jones@uwe.ac.uk
Professor of Public Health

Debra Salmon

Kevin Morgan

Adrian Morley



Abstract

In recent years food in school has become an emotive issue that has captured considerable public attention. School food appears to surface a wide range of contentious social issues that include the boundaries between public and private spheres, cultures of consumption and adult-child power relationships.

This paper explores expanding discursive arena of food in school in the context of the established public health concerns of balanced nutrition, dietary inequalities and obesity. In particular it focuses on agendas to promote organic, seasonal and local food through schools and efforts to encourage young people to cook ‘from scratch’.

The paper draws upon the early stages of the evaluation of the England-wide Food for Life Partnership initiative. This initiative brings together the moral frames of food as a public health issue, food as a sustainability issue and food as an issue for social cohesion. We examine how the initiative seeks to create a mandate for ‘healthy, social and sustainable foods’ amongst young populations and in multi-ethnic, urban and socially deprived school settings. In particular we explore the processes by which agents construct self-evidence or ‘plain truths’ for complex and contestable eating practices.

Citation

Orme, J., Jones, M., Salmon, D., Morgan, K., & Morley, A. (2009, July). Sustainable sustenance in school: organic, seasonal and local food agendas stretch the public health debate. Poster presented at BSA Food Studies Group, London, England

Presentation Conference Type Poster
Conference Name BSA Food Studies Group
Conference Location London, England
Start Date Jul 25, 2009
End Date Jul 25, 2009
Acceptance Date Jun 1, 2009
Publication Date Jul 15, 2009
Deposit Date Nov 11, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Keywords schools, health promotion, diet, nutrition
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/994344
Additional Information Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : BSA Food Studies Group Annual Conference

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