Countries should embed food-based dietary guidelines and public procurement programmes in national education and agriculture policies, ensuring they promote healthy regional cuisines, indigenous crops, and heritage dishes. Expanding home-grown school feeding and similar initiatives across public institutions can improve nutrition, create stable markets for smallholders, and reinforce culturally appropriate food habits while aligning procurement, health, and rural development goals.

Coordinate with local market committees to identify locally produced healthy and sustainable foods and ensure development of value chains,  visibility, and promotion of these foods.

Brazil’s SocioBio Mais Program, under the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Family Agriculture, guarantees minimum prices for 17 non-timber forest products through the PGPMBio framework. It provides fixed bonuses or variable subsidies, depending on the product, with payments managed via SociobioNet. By stabilizing income and reducing dependence on intermediaries, it supports extractivist communities and promotes sustainable resource use.

The EU School Scheme aims to support viable food production and promote healthy eating habits among children by encouraging the consumption of fruit and vegetables, milk and certain milk products in schools. It supports the distribution of products, educational measures and information measures. The Commission is also working to improve public procurement legislation to incentivise consumption of local, seasonal products and food with high environmental and social standards.

Plant-based protein sources have been included in the Swiss Dietary Recommendations and a related visual food pyramid.