Grouped together since 2020 in the Run’Alim association, On September 14, agricultural sectors and agri-food manufacturers launched an Internet portal to raise awareness of local products available to public catering buyers.. In a sector where calculations are made to the nearest cent and based on very restrictive technical criteria, local production is often disadvantaged by its prices, the availability and characteristics of its products. For this reason, 60% of the contents of collective catering meal trays are made up of imported food, according to Run’Alim’s estimate. Public buyers also probably act out of habit and sometimes ignore the diversity of Reunion's offerings., which seeks precisely to comply with the requirements of a catering method which represents millions of meals per year. The web platform www.runalim.re allows producers to present their offer in the form of regularly updated product sheets and to be informed of current calls for tenders., that public buyers are invited to put online. They are also invited to use the search engine to find out about the local offer.. Around a hundred product sheets are already online, more than 500 should eventually be referenced.
