Food UK news/2012-2021

• 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

• 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]

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• 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]

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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 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]

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• 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

• 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]

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