Food is an interdisciplinary topic that transverses different areas of knowledge, allowing it to be used as a pedagogical resource in numerous teaching-learning processes and environments. This paper seeks to contribute to early debates on the relationship between public procurement and food pedagogies in schools and universities, a topic that is still little addressed in the literature. I explore the Farm to Cafeteria Canada (F2CC) network in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, which beyond institutional procurement recognises food as a pedagogical resource at schools and on campus. My research is based on 18 site visits and qualitative analysis of documents and 9 semi-structured interviews conducted with institutional administrators associated with F2CC in Metro Vancouver. This paper demonstrates how the F2CC network activities in Metro Vancouver contribute not only to food procurement, but also to the practical development of pedagogical activities from different areas of knowledge and in different educational spaces.

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• Coca, E., (2025), "Eating and learning about food at school and on campus: Farm to Cafeteria Canada (F2CC) in Metro Vancouver", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.460)

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1. campus food
2. Farm to Cafeteria Canada
3. Metro Vancouver
4. school food
5. Teaching-learning

Original publication: Coca, Estevan. "Eating and learning about food at school and on campus: Farm to Cafeteria Canada (F2CC) in Metro Vancouver." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, vol. 8, no. 4, 2021. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.460. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. Copyright © the author(s). Work published in CFS/RCÉA prior to and including Vol. 8, No. 3 (2021) is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY license. Work published in Vol. 8, No. 4 (2021) and after is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.