Feeding the Future : School Lunch Programs as Global Social Policy / Jennifer Geist Rutledge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rutledge, Jennifer Geist, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Nutrition--United States.

Children.

School children--Food--United States.

School children.

National school lunch program.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 179 pages) : ill.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A century ago, only local charities existed to feed children. Today 368 million children receive school lunches in 151 countries, in programs supported by state and national governments. In Feeding the Future, Jennifer Geist Rutledge investigates how and why states have assumed responsibility for feeding children, chronicling the origins and spread of school lunch programs around the world, starting with the adoption of these programs in the United States and some Western European nations, and then tracing their growth through the efforts of the World Food Program. The primary focus of Feeding the Future is on social policy formation: how and why did school lunch programs emerge? Given that all countries developed education systems, why do some countries have these programs and others do not? Rutledge draws on a wealth of information-including archival resources, interviews with national policymakers in several countries, United Nations data, and agricultural statistics-to underscore the ways in which a combination of ideological and material factors led to the creation of these enduringly popular policies. She shows that, in many ways, these programs emerged largely as an unintended effect of agricultural policy that rewarded farmers for producing surpluses. School lunches provided a ready outlet for this surplus. She also describes how, in each of the cases of school lunch creation, policy entrepreneurs, motivated by a commitment to alleviate childhood malnutrition, harnessed different ideas that were relevant to their state or organization in order to funnel these agricultural surpluses into school lunch programs. The public debate over how we feed our children is becoming more and more politically charged. Feeding the Future provides vital background to these debates, illuminating the history of food policies and the ways our food system is shaped by global social policy.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Hunger, Education, and Agriculture

3. The First Wave in Europe: Women and Welfare

4. The United States: Surplus, Security, and Schools

5. The Second Wave: The U.N.'s World Food Programme

6. Changes and Challenges: Local Food and Cash Transfers

7. Conclusion

Appendix: Data and Methods

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780813573335

0813573335

9780813573342

0813573343

OCLC:

957249079