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Food UK news/2012-2021

Crowds shopping at Borough market, south London. Attribution: Andy F

This page brings together UK news 2012-2021, from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups with a focus or interest in food activism, food security, food sovereignty and food justice.

  • The Landworkers' Alliance responds to the National Food Strategy and calls for more support for local food systems and producers, Aug 24, 2021...landworkersalliance.org.uk
  • Community food systems should be part of the new normal – here's why, New Economics Foundation, Apr 26, 2021...neweconomics.org
  • 'System in crisis' as ministers fail to fight food waste and poverty, Apr 14, 2021...bigissue.com Food Abundance and Equality Declaration with signatories, Apr 2021, thisisrubbish.org.uk

2020

  • Environment to benefit from 'biggest farming shake-up in 50 years', Nov 30...[1]
  • How coronavirus has led to a UK boom in community food growing.[2] Aug 24
  • Britain beyond lockdown: can we make more space for nature?[3] Jun 30
  • More than five million people living in households with children under 18 have experienced food insecurity after just a month of lockdown, May 4[4]
  • Urban land could grow fruit and veg for 15 percent of the population.[5] Mar 17
  • A successful food-coop in Kentish Town points to considerable prospects for an updated, kindly anarchism, Jan 5[6]

References

2018

  • Stream Farm – A New Model for New Entrants...[1] Dec 21, 2018
  • Community potlucks: Shared meals help build deep ties among residents in Totnes.[2] Dec 5, 2018
  • Future proofing with kindness.[3] Oct 9

Ecological Land Cooperative purchases site in South Somerset to create new small farms....[4] The Ecological Land Cooperative works to create affordable ecological smallholdings for new entrants to farming – those who would ordinarily be unable to afford a house in the countryside yet who wish to earn a living through farming. Oct

  • The healthiest menu for poor people? An extra helping from government, Jack Monroe, Sep 6[5]
  • Meet London's first 50 Urban Food Heroes using food for good, Mar 19[6]
  • UK farmers to be given first ever targets on soil health, Mar 13[7]
  • The true cost of food: what should we do about it? Feb 19[8]

References

2017

Community Fridge secures funding to roll out project across UK, Dec 7[1]

  • Waltham Forest: Carrots and communism: the allotments plotting a food revolution, Aug 17[2]
  • Today sees the launch of ...

A People's Food Policy

A comprehensive proposal for a more just and sustainable food system in England[3] A ground-breaking manifesto outlining a people's vision of food and farming in England that is supported by over 80 food and farming organizations. The report draws on 18 months of extensive, nation-wide consultations with grassroots organizations, NGOs, trade unions, community projects, small businesses and individuals. It has resulted in a set of policy proposals and a vision for change that is rooted in the lived experiences and needs of people most affected by the failures in the current food system. A People's Food Policy is an extensive report, extending to 100 pages across 9 thematic chapters covering governance, food production, health, land, labour, environment, knowledge and skills, trade and finance - each with an in depth analysis and policy proposals for transforming the food system in England. June 26, 2017

  • Urban Agriculture in Little Sheffield, Mar 22[4]
  • Wales news: Fishguard's Transition Cafe wins award! Mar 6[5]
  • Britain's new wave of militant grocers, Sarah Butler, Feb 26[6]
  • FoodCycle Prevents Food Waste and Builds Community, One Meal at a Time, Feb 8[7]

References

2015-2016

  • Soil and soul: 'Leeds is the perfect combination of rural and urban', Oct 28, 2016...[1]
  • Going beyond the food banks, Jul 22, 2016...[2]
  • Feeding body and soul - an exploration of Britain's new age landworkers, May 12, 2016...[3]
  • 3 Incredible Ways to Get Your Community Growing Food, October 19, 2015...[4]
  • Rural sustainability UK: From fringe to fork – food and the Green Belt, Sep 29, 2015...[5]
  • The Most Sustainable Bread in the World, September 21, 2015...[6]
  • Sole Share, a community supported fishery, August 20, 2015...[7]
  • How Your Neighbourhood Can Have Its Own Community Allotment, August 14, 2015...[8]
  • Britain's 'Best Food Initiative' goes to…, May 1, 2015...[9]
  • Reaping the rewards of community growing, April 15, 2015...[10]
  • Community Shop profiled on Radio 4 Food Programme, January 14, 2015...[11]

References

2012-2014

  • Food for all, not for profit: the quest for food sovereignty, Fanny Malinen, September, 2014...[1]A new way to buy local produce? Food Assembly is coming to Britain, July 10[2]
  • How to invent a local food culture, June 26, 2014...[3]
  • Getting Dirty With The Neighbours – The Benefits Of Community Gardening, June 26, 2014...[4]
  • Transition Towns and Beyond: The Ecological Land Co-operative, By Shaun Chamberlin, May, 2014...[5]
  • First social supermarket opens selling 'surplus' food - but only to local people receiving welfare support, December 9, 2013...[6]
  • 10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town, Dec 3, 2013.
  • 15 tips to create consumer confidence in food retail and farmers markets, April 24, 2012...[7]

References

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