푸드플랜 관점에서 본 서울시의 공공급식정책에 관한 분석

Recently, several cities are getting started to develop food plans in Korea. Food plans start with an understanding the agri-food system as a cycle of production, distribution, processing, consumption and disposal. The agri-food crisis of Korean society is originated from the global food system which is dominated by giant agri-food corporations. The corporate driven global food systems are fragmented to each stage of production, distribution, processing, and consumption. In the process, corporations took farmers’ rights on production and citizens’ right on consumption at the same time. To make matters worse, farmers, local residents, and the national people are objectified as food has been treated as just goods. Thus, food plans have the consideration to solve these problems. This paper intends to compare the public procurement systems of urban food plans in foreign cities to those of Seoul and suggest the successful implementation of food plans in the following aspects, such as goals, locality, governance and institutional tools. There are many challenges to get public procurement system stabilized, which is a core of Seoul’s food plan. First, the public plate provisioning centers of the Autonomous Districts should be empowered by integrating public plate and school meal food provisioning. Second, organizing smallholder farmers in the rural area should be prioritized to achieve the goal of benefiting smallholders and family farms. Third, Seoul citizens could secure the right to food easily when the public plate centers of Autonomous Districts join the role of food support project on low-income families together.