Three contrasting international case studies illustrating that food in schools is a hot topic world-wide. Read all about a company providing healthy lunch boxes in Holland, the truly successful school meals system in Rome, Italy, and a range of initiatives and problems encountered in Australia.
Lunch4Kids
by Petra Teeuwen, Partner, Lunch4Kids
Describes the development and operation of Lunch4Kids which is a service providing healthy lunch boxes for school children in Holland.
About Petra Teeuwen
Petra has a background in marketing and in organisational science. Prior to her involvement in Lunch4Kids, she worked in IT and marketing. Petra and her business partner, Peter Veldhuizen, both recognised the increasing obesity problem in Dutch school children. and decided to launch Lunch4Kids despite their lack of experience in the food industry.
www.lunch4kids.com
Quality for all - School meals and sustainable development in Rome
by Dr Roberta Sonnino, School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University
Explains the process through which Rome has revolutionised its school meals system to identify strategies and values that are responsible for its astonishing success. The story presented here shows that the successful implementation of a healthy school meals system depends mostly, if not exclusively, on a strong, shared and tenacious commitment to the values and ideals of sustainable development.
About Roberta Sonnino
Roberta has a ‘Laurea’ degree in Anthropology from the University of Rome (Italy) and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Kansas (USA). She is currently a Lecturer in Environmental Policy and Planning at Cardiff University and is involved involved in an ESRC-sponsored research project on public procurement and sustainable school meals systems in Italy, the UK and the US.
Children’s Healthy Eating initiatives in Australia
by Tony Worsley, Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Deakin University, Melbourne
This chapter explains some of the problems encountered in Australia and describes initiatives which have been successful.
About Tony Worsley
Tony was brought up in England and his background is in psychology, particularly health psychology and behavioural epidemiology. He has wide experience in the evaluation of public health nutrition programmes, and in the promotion and maintenance of behaviour change. He is a co-author of the Body Owner’s Manual, and The Food System.
Useful websites
The Food Dudes:
www.fooddudes.co.uk
NSW School Canteens Association:
www.schoolcanteens.org.au
Collingwood College:
www.stephaniealexander.com.au/garden.htm
www.collingwood.vic.edu.au
The Edible Schoolyard:
www.edibleschoolyard.org
