학교급식운동을 통한 지역먹거리체계 구축방안 -전남 나주시 사례분석을 중심으로

Abstract

There have been remarkable achievements in our movements for school food safety in recent years. Legal foundations for governmental supports to school catering system have been laid by reforming school catering laws and by initiating legislative efforts to make new local regulations. By enforcing schools to introduce an in-house catering system, a firm foundation has been laid on which fresh and safe foods can be provided for students. Nevertheless, following preconditions have to be met before movements for school food safety will be promoted to a new alternative model by which we could overcome food crisis in our society. The first precondition is that these movements have to be organically linked to local food system. As can be seen in the English case of school catering, catering in schools have to be geared to the provision of a sustainable local food system rather than of healthy foods for the students. Only after this precondition be met, can producers's crisis, consumers's crisis, and local communities's crisis all be overcome through the school catering system. The second precondition is that these movements should be connected to a welfare approach to foods, that is to welfare for food security. Schools and education systems are the last resort we can turn to for social equality. School catering also has to be focused on social equity in terms of securing food sovereignty. That explains the necessity and validity of the free school foods arguments which have stirred heated controversies these days. The article aims to establish these points by a case study of school catering systems at Naju city in Geon-Nam Province.