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Reorganizing School Lunch for a More Just and Sustainable Food System in the US

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  • Jennifer Gaddis
  • Amy K. Coplen

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Public school lunch programs in the United States are contested political terrains shaped by government agencies, civil society activists, and agri-food companies. The particular organization of these programs has consequences for public health, social justice, and ecological sustainability. This contribution draws on political economy, critical food studies, and feminist economics to analyze the US National School Lunch Program, one of the world's oldest and largest government-sponsored school lunch programs. It makes visible the social and environmental costs of the “heat-and-serve” economy, where widely used metrics consider only the speed and volume of service as productive work. This study demonstrates that such a narrow understanding of the labor of lunch devalues care and undercuts the potential for school food provisioning to promote ecological and feminist goals. Further, it proposes a “high road” alternative and outlines an agenda for reorganizing school food provisioning to maximize care in all its dimensions.

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  • Jennifer Gaddis & Amy K. Coplen, 2018. "Reorganizing School Lunch for a More Just and Sustainable Food System in the US," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(3), pages 89-112, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:24:y:2018:i:3:p:89-112
    DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2017.1383621
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    1. Lana Whittaker, 2024. "Underpaid, undervalued, and overworked: The working conditions of cooks in India's school lunch programme," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 42(4), July.
    2. Elvira Molin & Michael Martin & Anna Björklund, 2021. "Addressing Sustainability within Public Procurement of Food: A Systematic Literature Review," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(23), pages 1-21, December.
    3. Chambers, Stephanie & Boydell, Nicola & Ford, Allison & Eadie, Douglas, 2020. "Learning from the implementation of Universal Free School Meals in Scotland using Normalisation Process Theory: Lessons for policymakers to engage multiple stakeholders," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
    4. Elena Pagliarino & Elena Santanera & Greta Falavigna, 2021. "Opportunities for and Limits to Cooperation between School and Families in Sustainable Public Food Procurement," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(16), pages 1-19, August.
    5. Jennifer E. Gaddis & June Jeon, 2020. "Sustainability transitions in agri-food systems: insights from South Korea’s universal free, eco-friendly school lunch program," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 37(4), pages 1055-1071, December.

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