A tool to assess the territorial sustainability of collective catering and support its transition
Abstract
Public food procurement has been described and analysed as a powerful means to support sustainability transition of food systems. Several studies on design processes highlighted the role and the importance of sustainability assessment to support agroecological transition of farming and food systems. This work aimed at codesigning a tool to assess the territorial sustainability of collective catering. We developed an easy to use and adaptable hierarchical and qualitative multi-criteria assessment tool composed of twenty-seven basic criteria organized around three main dimensions (economic, socio-cultural, territorial health) inspired by the three pillars of sustainability. In the end, the tool provides both a global level of territorial sustainability (ranking from A + to F) and the detail for each criterion. The application to 20 collective catering structures and the discussion of the results with the stakeholders were used to investigate the usefulness of the tool in supporting sustainability transition. By feeding both individual assessments in the form of a pedagogic report and cross-analysis at the territorial scale, the outputs from the tool were considered as helpful in engaging practices changes by different actors and at different scales.
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BibTeX
@article{leclere2026tool,
title = {{A tool to assess the territorial sustainability of collective catering and support its transition}},
author = {Margot Leclère and Othilie Cazier and Chloé Sallas and Lise Pujos},
journal = {Cleaner Production Letters},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.1016/j.clpl.2026.100160},
url = {https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-05786553v1},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - A tool to assess the territorial sustainability of collective catering and support its transition
AU - Margot Leclère
AU - Othilie Cazier
AU - Chloé Sallas
AU - Lise Pujos
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/08
JO - Cleaner Production Letters
DO - 10.1016/j.clpl.2026.100160
UR - https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-05786553v1
AB - Public food procurement has been described and analysed as a powerful means to support sustainability transition of food systems. Several studies on design processes highlighted the role and the importance of sustainability assessment to support agroecological transition of farming and food systems. This work aimed at codesigning a tool to assess the territorial sustainability of collective catering. We developed an easy to use and adaptable hierarchical and qualitative multi-criteria assessment tool composed of twenty-seven basic criteria organized around three main dimensions (economic, socio-cultural, territorial health) inspired by the three pillars of sustainability. In the end, the tool provides both a global level of territorial sustainability (ranking from A + to F) and the detail for each criterion. The application to 20 collective catering structures and the discussion of the results with the stakeholders were used to investigate the usefulness of the tool in supporting sustainability transition. By feeding both individual assessments in the form of a pedagogic report and cross-analysis at the territorial scale, the outputs from the tool were considered as helpful in engaging practices changes by different actors and at different scales.
SN - 2666-7916
ER -