Abstract
Around the world, the commitment to a fair, healthy, and sustainable food model within the sphere of formal education represents a cultural transformation, not just for students but for the broader educational community and for society as a whole. Getting there is not easy, however. Truly transforming the relationship that schools have with food—and ensuring that food is a vector for lasting societal change—is a multidirectional process of teaching and learning that involves a broad range of stakeholders. This includes students and teachers, cooks and cafeteria monitors, food suppliers and intermediaries, families and neighborhoods, as well as numerous other actors from the communities in which schools are located.
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Ramón Fernández Durán and Luis González Reyes, En la espiral de la energía (Madrid: Libros en Acción y Baladre, 2014).
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United Nations General Assembly, “Report Submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter,” Human Rights Council, Sixteenth session, Agenda item 3, Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development (New York: December 20, 2010).
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For more on re-ruralization, see Fernández Durán and González Reyes, En la espiral de la energía.
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Foodlinks, Revaluing Public Sector Food Procurement in Europe: An Action Plan for Sustainability (Brussels: 2010), 14; FUHEM Foundation, “Nuestros comedores ecológicos en ‘Comando Actualidad’ de TVE,” www.fuhem.es/educacion/noticias.aspx?v=10022&n=0; Menjadors Ecològics, “Qui som i què fem,” www.menjadorsecologics.cat/associacio/el-projecte/; Georgia Organics website, http://georgiaorganics.org; Seven Generations Ahead website, http://sevengenerationsahead.org.
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Ecocentral, “Ecomenja,” http://ecocentral.cat/empreses-gestores-menjadors-escolars/ecomenja-gestor-de-menjadors-escolars/; “Nation’s First School District to Serve 100% Organic, Non-GMO Meals,” EcoWatch, August 18, 2015; National Farm to School Network website, www.farmtoschool.org.
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AMPA Gómez Moreno, “Comedor ecológico,” https://ampagomezmoreno.wordpress.com/servicios/comedor; Chris Hardman, “How One Visionary Changed School Food in Detroit,” Civil Eats, April 6, 2015; Tracie McMillan, “Detroit’s Rebel Lunch Lady Wants to Fix More Than Food,” National Geographic, March 4, 2016.
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Bridget Huber, “Welcome to Brazil, Where a Food Revolution Is Changing the Way People Eat,” The Nation, July 28, 2016; Foodlinks, Revaluing Public Sector Food Procurement in Europe.
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Menjadors Ecològics, “Qui som i què fem.”
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FUHEM Foundation, “Nuestros comedores ecológicos en Comando Actualidad de TVE.”
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Cidades Sem Fome, “School Gardens Project,” https://cidadessemfome.org/en/#projekt_sg; Jane Goodall Institute China, “Roots and Shoots,” www.jgichina.org/en/rootsandshoots/environment/index.aspx?PartNodeId=13; Kitchen Garden Foundation, “Pleasurable Food Education,” www.kitchengardenfoundation.org.au/content/pleasurable-food-education; Edible Garden City website, www.ediblegardencity.com; Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity, “Mbuyuni School Garden,” www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/slow-food-gardens-africa/mbuyuni-school-garden.
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Danielle Nierenberg and Allyn Rosenberger, “35 Food Education Organizations,” Food Tank, September 13, 2016; The Edible Schoolyard Project, “Train with Us!” http://edibleschoolyard.org/training.
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GrowNYC, “Learn It Grow It Eat It,” www.grownyc.org/learn-it-grow-it-eat-it.
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The Independent School Food Plan, “Cooking in the Curriculum,” www.schoolfoodplan.com/actions/cooking-in-the-curriculum.
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Curriculum of Cuisine website, http://thecurriculumofcuisine.org; Alimentando Otros Modelos, “Materiales didácticos Alimentando Otros Modelos,” August 1, 2016, https://alimentarotrosmodelos.wordpress.com/2016/08/01/materiales-didacticos-alimentando-otros-modelos.
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SEED, “Schools Education,” http://seed.org.za/schools-education.
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INCLUD-ED website, http://creaub.info/included.
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Information based on the author’s experience in these movements. See also MST, “Educação,” www.mst.org.br/educacao, and Raúl Zibechi, Descolonizar la rebeldía. (Des)colonialismo del pensamiento crítico y de las prácticas emnacipatorias (Málaga, Spain: Baladre y Zambra, 2014).
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Reyes, L.G. (2017). Growing a New School Food Culture. In: EarthEd. State of the World. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-843-5_6
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