Improving food security and nutrition through local public food procurement from smallholder farmers
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In a region marked by inequalities, rural poverty, and the high cost of healthy diets, local public food procurement for smallholder farmers is presented as a public policy tool that can articulate state demand with local supply and promote more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable agri-food systems. The document presents succesful experiencies in the region, evidencing positive impacts on agricultural production, food diversification, local employment, and the inclusion of women, alongside a greater supply of fresh and minimally processed foods in favour of a better nutrition. The report concludes that local public food procurement for smallholder farmers can be an engine of economic inclusion, productive development, and improvements in food security and nutrition, provided they are implemented with a systemic, progressive, and evidence-based approach. The key is to redirect existing public spending towards purchases that generate structural impacts on agrifood systems.