In order to prevent children and young people from becoming overweight or obese, it is imperative to promote healthier eating patterns. So it is necessary to develop and implement effective strategies that can influence the eating and lifestyle habits of young people. Healthy school meal programme is considered to be an effective strategy to promote such changes and increasingly such strategies become embedded organic supply polices and strategies that pursue environmental goals. The purpose of this paper is to take a closer look into the current status of the organic school meal programme in Denmark. Three municipalities which are involved in the organic school meal programme are chosen as the study subjects

He, Chen

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ORGANIC SCHOOL MEALS IN DENMARKChen HeTechnical University of Denmark/National Food Institution, Mørkhøj Bygade 19, DK-2860 Søborgchen.he.sonne[a]gmail.comIntroductionIn order to prevent children and young people from becoming overweight or obese, it is imperative to promote healthier eating patterns. So it is necessary to develop and implement effective strategies that can influence the eating and lifestyle habits of young people. Healthy school meal programme is considered to be an effective strategy to promote such changes and increasingly such strategies become embedded organic supply polices and strategies that pursue environmental goals. The purpose of this paper is to take a closer look into the current status of the organic school meal programme in Denmark. Three municipalities which are involved in the organic school meal programme are chosen as the study subjects.MethodologyThis study is based on the individual interviews with three municipalities on Zealand of Denmark, which have public organic food procurement policies or food and nutrition policy. POP: Public Organic Food Procurement Policy refers to a policy, in which a specified amount of specified foods are expected to be organic, which are practiced in public organizations offering food.FNP: Food & Nutrition Policy is a set of written and adopted principles that aims to fulfill nutritional needs of pupils at schools and ensure availability and accessibility of healthy foods.Theoretical foundationResultsFigure 1, 2, and 3 respectively show the involved actors in the organic school meals programme in Roskilde, Copenhagen and Gladsaxe. It can be seen that there are some differences among these 3 municipalities, regarding the cooperation work of school meals between the municipality and the schools. However, they also have some similarities. As the table shows, the difference and similarities of the organic school meals in 3 municipalities.DiscussionThe evidence proves that providing organic school meals in Denmark is a complicate process. Firstly, the traditional lunchbox has shaped the eating style of children at schools for long time. This is based on the food culture in a country. Meanwhile, the school meals are not free of charge, and the organic ingredients involved make it more expensive. So there are a low amount of pupils choosing school meals. Secondly, so far the government has not given any extra budget to the school meal service, and no national guideline for the percentage of organic food in the school food has been set. So in the respect the public organic procurement policy can be extended by aspiration of the society. Last but not least, providing only organic food to school children is far from enough. Encouraging our children to establish healthy eating habits will need long-term effort to complete and be successful.In the context of this paper the provision of food and nutrition at school can be understood as a technology. However there is far from agreement of what this technology does and in fact different stakeholder compete in order to decide what this technology does and should do. School food has become “boundary object”which is explained in detail in the actor-network theory (ANT). ANT argues that things for instance school food, perform and enact through actors in a network and that it is making sense only through the interaction with other object in the network. ANT is her being applied in the analysis of the four interviews. Stage 1 Problem Formulation Stage 2 “interessement”Stage 3 “enrolment” Stage 4 “mobilization”Core problem Actor 1Actor 2Actor 3Actor 3Actor 1Actor 2 Actor 2Actor 1Actor 3

Organic school meals in three Danish municipalities

In order to prevent children and young people from becoming overweight or obese, it is imperative to promote healthier eating patterns. So it is necessary to develop and implement effective strategies that can influence the eating and lifestyle habits of young people. Healthy school meal programme is considered to be an effective strategy to promote such changes and increasingly such strategies become embedded organic supply polices and strategies that pursue environmental goals. The purpose of this paper is to take a closer look into the current status of the organic school meal programme in Denmark. Three municipalities which are involved in the organic school meal programme are chosen as the study subjects.</p

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    Aalborg UniversitetOrganic school meals in three Danish municipalitiesHe, ChenPublication date:2008Document VersionEarly version, also known as pre-printLink to publication from Aalborg UniversityCitation for published version (APA):He, C. (2008). Organic school meals in three Danish municipalities. Poster presented at IFOAM, Modena, Italy.General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright ownersand it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.            ? Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.            ? You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain            ? You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ?Take down policyIf you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us at vbn@aub.aau.dk providing details, and we will remove access tothe work immediately and investigate your claim.Downloaded from vbn.aau.dk on: November 29, 2020ORGANIC SCHOOL MEALS IN DENMARKChen HeTechnical University of Denmark/National Food Institution, Mørkhøj Bygade 19, DK-2860 Søborgchen.he.sonne[a]gmail.comIntroductionIn order to prevent children and young people from becoming overweight or obese, it is imperative to promote healthier eating patterns. So it is necessary to develop and implement effective strategies that can influence the eating and lifestyle habits of young people. Healthy school meal programme is considered to be an effective strategy to promote such changes and increasingly such strategies become embedded organic supply polices and strategies that pursue environmental goals. The purpose of this paper is to take a closer look into the current status of the organic school meal programme in Denmark. Three municipalities which are involved in the organic school meal programme are chosen as the study subjects.MethodologyThis study is based on the individual interviews with three municipalities on Zealand of Denmark, which have public organic food procurement policies or food and nutrition policy. POP: Public Organic Food Procurement Policy refers to a policy, in which a specified amount of specified foods are expected to be organic, which are practiced in public organizations offering food.FNP: Food & Nutrition Policy is a set of written and adopted principles that aims to fulfill nutritional needs of pupils at schools and ensure availability and accessibility of healthy foods.Theoretical foundationResultsFigure 1, 2, and 3 respectively show the involved actors in the organic school meals programme in Roskilde, Copenhagen and Gladsaxe. It can be seen that there are some differences among these 3 municipalities, regarding the cooperation work of school meals between the municipality and the schools. However, they also have some similarities. As the table shows, the difference and similarities of the organic school meals in 3 municipalities.DiscussionThe evidence proves that providing organic school meals in Denmark is a complicate process. Firstly, the traditional lunchbox has shaped the eating style of children at schools for long time. This is based on the food culture in a country. Meanwhile, the school meals are not free of charge, and the organic ingredients involved make it more expensive. So there are a low amount of pupils choosing school meals. Secondly, so far the government has not given any extra budget to the school meal service, and no national guideline for the percentage of organic food in the school food has been set. So in the respect the public organic procurement policy can be extended by aspiration of the society. Last but not least, providing only organic food to school children is far from enough. Encouraging our children to establish healthy eating habits will need long-term effort to complete and be successful.In the context of this paper the provision of food and nutrition at school can be understood as a technology. However there is far from agreement of what this technology does and in fact different stakeholder compete in order to decide what this technology does and should do. School food has become “boundary object”which is explained in detail in the actor-network theory (ANT). ANT argues that things for instance school food, perform and enact through actors in a network and that it is making sense only through the interaction with other object in the network. ANT is her being applied in the analysis of the four interviews. Stage 1 Problem Formulation Stage 2 “interessement”Stage 3 “enrolment” Stage 4 “mobilization”Core problem Actor 1Actor 2Actor 3Actor 3Actor 1Actor 2 Actor 2Actor 1Actor 3

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