Jennifer E. Gaddis is Associate Professor of Civil Society and Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of The Labor of Lunch. She is an advisory board member of the National Farm to School Network.

Sarah A. Robert is Associate Professor at the University at Buffalo’s Graduate School of Education. She is the author of Neoliberal Education Reform; Neoliberalism, Gender, and Education Work; and School Food Politics. She is an Associate Editor for Gender, Work, and Organizations.

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section 1: The Power and Potential of National School Meal Programs
1 A Whole Systems Approach to School Food Policy in Japan
2 Centering Children, Health and Justice in Canadian School Food Programs
3 School Food Politics, Identity, and Indigeneity in the Peruvian Amazon
Section 2: Claiming Space for Youth and Worker Voices
4 Sustainable Food Education in Finnish Schools Through Collaborative Pedagogy
5 Rebel Ventures and Youth-Led Food Initiatives in the United States
6 Creating a Mobile Method to Nourish Children in the United States through the “Yum-Yum Bus”
7 Local and National Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States
Section 3: Struggling for Just School Food Economies
8 Civil Society Activism and Government Partnerships in India
9 Cooperative and Small-Scale Farming through Brazil’s National Procurement Standards
10 Agroecology and Feminist Praxis in Brazilian School Food Politics
11 Direct Urban-Rural Supply Chains for South Korean Communities
Section 4: Tools and Campaigns for Systems Change
12 Using Storytelling in the United States to Build Empathy for Change
13 Facilitating Think Tanks to Guide Action and Advocacy in Canadian Teachers Unions
14 The Center for Ecoliteracy’s Approach to School Food Systems Change in the United States
15 Developing Solidarity Coalitions for Universal School Meals and Local Food in the United States
Conclusion
Ancillary Materials
Contributor Bios