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[email protected] [email protected] Title: Organic and conventional public food procurement for youth in Italy Autor(s): Stefano Bocchi, Roberto Spigarolo, Natale Marcomini and Valerio Sarti Date: Availability: Project No.: Archive No.: 19.02.2008 Open 2010099 Report No.: ISBN-no.: Number of pages: Number of appendix: 3(42) 2008 978-82-17-00345-8 48 Employer: Contact person: Anne-Kristin Løes Keywords: Field of work: Organic food, youth, public procurement, health, Food policy and nutrition school meal systems Summary: Political organisation and policies about school catering and public organic procurement in Italy. The report is produced within the project ―innovative Public Organic food Procurement for Youth‖, iPOPY, and will be updated and revised during the project period (2007-2010). Sammendrag: Approved Project leader Turid Strøm, director Anne-Kristin Løes Introduction Italy holds first place in Europe and third place worldwide for the amount of organic farms with over 37,000 producers. Italy is also first in Europe and fourth in the world for land dedicated to organic, with over 950,000 hectares, over 6% of overall agricultural land and an average of 27 hectares per farm against the 5 of conventional agriculture.