FLOW advisor Kevin Morgan‘s recently published review of Transforming School Food Politics around the World (MIT Press, 2024) demonstrates how school food agendas are gaining political clout. In his words, “school food campaigns can be part of a democratic counter-movement by making social justice, public health, and ecological integrity resonate across a wide political spectrum.”
Edited by Jennifer E. Gaddis and Sarah A. Robert, Transforming School Food Politics around the World spans numerous regions and themes, and addresses the many ways in which school food campaigns produce change. The editors group the chapters into four editorial buckets, including national school food programs, the voices of young people and of school food workers, the economies and justices of school food programs, and the tools and strategies used in bringing about systems change with and for school food programs.
Read the review in the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development for Kevin’s full analysis.
Kevin Morgan is a professor of governance and development in the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University. One of his core research interests is sustainable food systems, particularly with respect to public food systems. He has recently summarized this research in a new book, Serving the Public: The Good Food Revolution in Schools, Hospitals, and Prisons (Manchester University Press).
read the book review
