You are courteously invited to participate in COCOREADO's workshop to hear of solutions and to discuss issues on lowering the barriers for farmers to participate in Sustainable Public Procurement.
Online Workshop 24.01.24
Our key message is that implementation of Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) to advance Farm to Fork (F2F) targets needs a novel approach to change the current purchasing systems and mindset. The bureaucracy and the lack of required primary functions of the supply chain set insurmountable barriers for farmers to enter the public procurement bidding process. There is a clear need for novel practical solutions for SPP to execute the F2F targets. However, there already exist many innovative ways to open opportunities and to include farmers and short chains in the food public procurement process.
In the workshop you will learn of purchasing method Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) that has been proven successful enabling also unexperienced farmers to participate in SPP.
Moreover, by participating in the workshop, you will hear of following inspiring examples:
- LuRu-project in Finland is helping public procurers to reach the target set for municipalities to have 25% of organic food in public purchases by 2030. Anu Arolaakso, Project Manager in Savo Consortium for Education, Strategic Support, describes how they have abridged the gap between public procurers and producers in Finland in a practical way to increase participation of small sustainable organic producers in public procurement. The concrete results are fit both to procurement systems that buy products or that buy services.
- The Copenhagen Hospitality College changed from one wholesaler to a range of specific contracts to secure short supply chain as part of the education of next generation of chefs. Line Rise Nielsen, Changing Food, explains how innovatively suppliers and farmers were included to SPP simultaneously participating in educating young people.
After registering, you will receive the link to the workshop. You are warmly welcome to participate and share your thoughts! For further questions, you can contact Aira Sevón.