Transforming public food procurement: Stakeholder understandings of barriers and opportunities for more localised procurement
基于英格兰西南部40个访谈，分析公共食品采购向本地化转型中供应链利益相关者遇到的障碍与机遇，指出需关注采购方与供应商之间的互动及社会文化障碍。
Green and sustainable food procurement has benefits for human health, the environment and economies. Public sector actors have purchasing power behind procurement decisions, and there is significant support for sustainably sourced food from consumers and the third sector. A sustainability transition in the public procurement of food would appear to be achievable, yet change remains incremental. This paper analyses supply chain stakeholder narratives about pathways to more localised public food procurement. Based on forty interviews with actors in the procurement supply chain in the South West of England, we examine the barriers and opportunities for more localised food supply and sourcing. Our findings indicate that if public food procurement is to become a viable, feasible and desirable market channel for operators of regional food businesses, we need to give greater attention to supply chain stakeholders' experiences of the interface between procurers and suppliers. Tensions exist between stakeholders’ shared need for efficiency and logistical convenience, and their mutual desire for closer procurer-supplier relations and aspirations for a regional economic community. Results demonstrate that alongside the need for new physical and digital infrastructure, there is an urgent need to address socio-cultural barriers to change.