Food UK news

CASwiki news articles have a focus on news of community action for sustainability. This article is an offshoot from Food activism UK and is for news and comment in that context. Image: Crowds shopping at Borough market, south London. Attribution: Andy F

• We call for land strategy and new planning rules to guard food security, CPRE (Jul 20, 2022) — There’s been a hundred-fold increase in our best farmland lost to development in little more than a decade, new CPRE research has found. And 60% of our finest agricultural land is at risk of flooding. As a result, we’re telling government we need a land strategy and new planning rules to safeguard our food security
• Rooting for farmers, Wicked Leeks (Jul 04, 2022) — Former barrister and author Sarah Langford tells Nina Pullman why she wrote the defence case for farming and why the regenerative movement offers an escape from exploitive agribusiness.
• How filling the UK’s unused land with fruit and veg could help make us and our environment healthier - and help fight inequality, The Conversation (May 17, 2022)
• In a hardscrabble Liverpool location, a community "pantry" (not a food bank) feeds both bodies and souls, The Daily Alternative (May 11, 2022)
• There are solutions to the food crisis. But ploughing up Britain isn’t one of them. George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Mar 16, 2022)
• New grants to help communities tackle food and climate change, sustainweb.org (Feb 28, 2022) — Grants of up to £5,000 are open to any local food partnership, local authority or community group in the UK.
• How community ownership can secure the UK’s food security through buying family farms, Stir to Action (Feb 03, 2022) — How a national crisis of family-owned farms presents an opportunity for a new generation of community owners
• A startling UK map showing how much we use land for animal agriculture - and how much solar is crowded out, The Alternative UK (Jan 24, 2022)
• Protein from gorse bushes could feed millions of people, says expert, The Guardian (Jan 10, 2022)

2021

The Landworkers’ Alliance responds to the National Food Strategy and calls for more support for local food systems and producers, Aug 24

Community food systems should be part of the new normal – here’s why, New Economics Foundation, Apr 26 ...Hackney

‘System in crisis’ as ministers fail to fight food waste and poverty, Apr 14 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 ...Rural sustainability UK

How coronavirus has led to a UK boom in community food growing. Aug 24

Britain beyond lockdown: can we make more space for nature? Jun 30 ...Rural sustainability UK

More than five million people living in households with children under 18 have experienced food insecurity after just a month of lockdown, May 4

Urban land could grow fruit and veg for 15 percent of the population. Mar 17 ...Sheffield

A successful food-coop in Kentish Town points to considerable prospects for an updated, kindly anarchism, Jan 5

2018

Stream Farm – A New Model for New Entrants. Dec 21 ...Somerset

Community potlucks: Shared meals help build deep ties among residents in Totnes. Dec 5

Future proofing with kindness. Oct 9

Ecological Land Cooperative purchases site in South Somerset to create new small farms. 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

Meet London’s first 50 Urban Food Heroes using food for good, Mar 19

UK farmers to be given first ever targets on soil health, Mar 13

The true cost of food: what should we do about it? Feb 19

2017

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

Waltham Forest: Carrots and communism: the allotments plotting a food revolution, Aug 17

Today sees the launch of A People’s Food Policy, Jun 26

A People’s Food Policy A comprehensive proposal for a more just and sustainable food system in England 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, 2017

Urban Agriculture in Little Sheffield, Mar 22

Wales news: Fishguard’s Transition Cafe wins award! Mar 6

Britain’s new wave of militant grocers, Sarah Butler, Feb 26

FoodCycle Prevents Food Waste and Builds Community, One Meal at a Time, Feb 8

2016

Yorkshire and the Humber: Soil and soul: ‘Leeds is the perfect combination of rural and urban’, Oct 28

Going beyond the food banks, Jul 22

Feeding body and soul - an exploration of Britain's new age landworkers, May 12

2015

3 Incredible Ways to Get Your Community Growing Food, October 19

Rural sustainability UK: From fringe to fork – food and the Green Belt, Sep 29

The Most Sustainable Bread in the World, September 21

Sole Share, a community supported fishery, August 20

How Your Neighbourhood Can Have Its Own Community Allotment, August 14

Britain’s ‘Best Food Initiative’ goes to…, May 1

Reaping the rewards of community growing, April 15

Community Shop profiled on Radio 4 Food Programme, January 14

2014

Food for all, not for profit: the quest for food sovereignty, Fanny Malinen, September

A new way to buy local produce? Food Assembly is coming to Britain, July 10

How to invent a local food culture, June 26

Getting Dirty With The Neighbours – The Benefits Of Community Gardening, June 26

Transition Towns and Beyond: The Ecological Land Co-operative, By Shaun Chamberlin, May

2013

First social supermarket opens selling ‘surplus’ food - but only to local people receiving welfare support, December 9

• 10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town, Dec 3

2012

15 tips to create consumer confidence in food retail and farmers markets, April 24

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• Food UK
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• 10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town, Dec 3, 2013

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