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This article focuses on what communities can do to take action on food issues. Appropedia's [[Food]] article is a more general and signposting article.


== What communities can do ==
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* Abundance schemes to collect and share food using bicycle trailers
* Allotment gardening and community allotments
* City farms
* Community Farm Land Trusts
* Community gardening
* Community greenhouse, ''eg see [[Food news#2013]]''
* Community harvest related events, eg community apple juicing
* Community orchards
* [[Community Supported Agriculture]]
* Community-supported fishery
* Farmers markets, set one up or support most local ones
* Food cooperatives and bulk buy schemes
* Fruit tree mapping
* Gardening clubs, eg for specific types of gardening: organic, [[permaculture]], etc.
* Gardening match up service
* Garden sharing or Yardsharing
* Gleaning or Food rescue
* [[Guerrilla gardening]]
* Healthy eating initiatives
* Local Foodshed Mapping
* Local recipe collections
* Organise food events
* School-community kitchens
* Seed libraries, seed saving, swapping and sharing
* Sharing cooking skills, for example with younger people or younger parents
* Slow food initiatives
* Support wider initiatives such as Meat Free Mondays
* Urban forest garden or Food Forest
* Visit an organic farm


== Campaigns ==
{{Read more|Food news}}
 
This article focuses on networks, events and concepts relevant to Food activism. Separate spin-off articles cover [[Community action food projecs]], [[Food activism resources]] and [[Food news]]. Appropedia's [[Food]] article is a more general and signposting article.
 
== Networks ==
 
* [https://www.soilcarenetwork.com/ Soil Care Network], global community of scholars, researchers, growers, and civil society members from a wide range of backgrounds, all animated by the love of, fascination with, and dedication to soils. We believe that soils are key to addressing current challenges to human and ecological flourishing. And we believe that improving the state of soils and ensuring an abundant future for all life requires action across academic disciplines. ''added [[User:Philralph|Philralph]] ([[User talk:Philralph|talk]]) 17:27, 16 February 2021 (UTC)''
* [https://www.openfoodnetwork.org/ Open Food Network], global network of people and organizations working together to build a new food system. "Together, we develop open and shared resources, knowledge and software to support a better food system."
* [https://foodswapnetwork.com/ Food Swap Network]
 
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Pam Warhurst from Incredible Edible Todmorden, 12/5/2011, on [https://vimeo.com/23634508 vimeo]
 
* [https://incredibleediblenetwork.org.uk/ Incredible Edible network]. The Incredible Edible project is an urban gardening project which was started in 2008 by Pamela Warhurst, Mary Clear and a group of like minded people in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, [[United Kingdom|UK]]. The project aims to bring people together through actions around local food, helping to change behaviour towards the environment and to build a kinder and more resilient world. In some cases, it also envisions to have the groups become self-sufficient in food production, hence having all food being produced locally.


[http://www.ciwf.org.uk/ Compassion in World Farming], campaigning and lobbying animal welfare organisation. It campaigns against the live export of animals, certain methods of livestock slaughter, and all systems of factory farming. {{W|Compassion in World Farming}}
:Since its conception, the Incredible Edible ethos has been taken up by communities all over the world and there are now 120 Incredible Edible official groups in the UK and more than 700 worldwide. In 2008 to help sustain existing groups and continue to inspire new ones in the UK, the Incredible Edible Network was launched with Pam Warhurst as its chair and Tanya Wall, as its operational lead.


[http://feedbackglobal.org/ Feedback], environmental organisation campaigning to end food waste at every level of the food system
:In the UK, these groups' collective success has begun to directly influence decision-makers both on a national and local level. In response, the network has evolved from a resource for members into a fully fledged movement, simply known as Incredible Edible. {{W|Incredible Edible}}


[http://www.iknowwhogrewit.org I know who grew it], campaign to fix broken food and farming
[[10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town]], Dec 3, 2013


[http://www.thinkeatsave.org/ Think.Eat.Save]
== Events ==


== Why it matters ==
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=== Community food security ===
== Community food security ==


Community food security (CFS) is a relatively new concept that captures emerging ideas about the central place of food in communities. At times it refers to the measure of food access and availability at the community level, and at other times to a goal or framework for place-based food systems. It builds upon the more commonly understood concept of [[food security]], which refers to food access and availability at an individual or household level (in health and social policy, for instance) and at a national or global level (e.g., in international development and aid work). {{W|Community food security}} / ''See also'' [[Food Sovereignty]]
Community food security (CFS) is a relatively new concept that captures emerging ideas about the central place of food in communities. At times it refers to the measure of food access and availability at the community level, and at other times to a goal or framework for place-based food systems. It builds upon the more commonly understood concept of [[food security]], which refers to food access and availability at an individual or household level (in health and social policy, for instance) and at a national or global level (e.g., in international development and aid work). {{W|Community food security}} / ''See also'' [[Food Sovereignty]]


=== Local food ===
== Local food ==


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Local food or the local food movement is a "collaborative effort to build more locally based, self-reliant food economies - one in which sustainable food production, processing, distribution, and consumption is integrated to enhance the economic, environmental and social health of a particular place." {{W|Local food}}
Local food or the local food movement is a "collaborative effort to build more locally based, self-reliant food economies - one in which sustainable food production, processing, distribution, and consumption is integrated to enhance the economic, environmental and social health of a particular place." {{W|Local food}}
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''More video:'' The Joy of Local Food on [https://vimeo.com/237583940 Vimeo]
''More video:'' The Joy of Local Food on [https://vimeo.com/237583940 Vimeo]


=== Seasonal food ===
== Seasonal food ==


Greater local connection with food and food growing enables communities to better appreciate food in season, thereby strengthening the local food economy.
Greater local connection with food and food growing enables communities to better appreciate food in season, thereby strengthening the local food economy.
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=== Methods of Distributing Food within a Local Foodshed ===
=== Methods of Distributing Food within a Local Foodshed ===


The “farm-to-table” movement is focused on producing food locally within a foodshed, and delivering it to local consumers. Methods of Distributing Food within a Local Foodshed include Farmers’ markets, Roadside stands, Pick-your-own, Subscription farming and Community-supported agriculture. {{W|Foodshed#Methods of Distributing Food within a Local Foodshed}}
The “farm-to-table” movement is focused on producing food locally within a foodshed, and delivering it to local consumers. Methods of Distributing Food within a Local Foodshed include Farmers’ markets, Roadside stands, Pick-your-own, Subscription farming and Community-supported agriculture. {{W|Foodshed#Methods of Distributing Food within a Local Foodshed}}


=== Local Foodshed Mapping ===
=== Local Foodshed Mapping ===
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Buying local food within a foodshed can be seen as a means to combat the modern food system, and the effects it has on the environment. It has been described as “a banner under which people attempt to counteract trends of economic concentration, social disempowerment and environmental degradation in the food and agricultural landscape.” Choosing to buy local produce improves the environmental stewardship of producers by reducing the amount of energy used in the transport of foods, as well as greenhouse gas emissions. {{W|Foodshed#Foodsheds and Sustainability}}
Buying local food within a foodshed can be seen as a means to combat the modern food system, and the effects it has on the environment. It has been described as “a banner under which people attempt to counteract trends of economic concentration, social disempowerment and environmental degradation in the food and agricultural landscape.” Choosing to buy local produce improves the environmental stewardship of producers by reducing the amount of energy used in the transport of foods, as well as greenhouse gas emissions. {{W|Foodshed#Foodsheds and Sustainability}}


== Allotment gardening ==
== Campaigns ==


The Luxembourg-based Office International du Coin de Terre et des Jardins Familiaux, representing three million European allotment gardeners since 1926, describes the socio-cultural and economic functions of allotment gardens as offering an improved quality of life, an enjoyable and profitable hobby, relaxation, and contact with nature. For children, gardens offer places to play and to learn about nature, while for the unemployed, they offer a feeling of doing something useful as well as low-cost food. For the elderly and disabled, gardens offer an opportunity to meet people, to share in activity with like-minded people, and to experience activities like planting and harvesting. {{W|Allotment (gardening)}}
* [https://www.ciwf.org.uk/ Compassion in World Farming], campaigning and lobbying animal welfare organisation. It campaigns against the live export of animals, certain methods of livestock slaughter, and all systems of factory farming. {{W|Compassion in World Farming}}
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* [https://feedbackglobal.org/ Feedback], environmental organisation campaigning to end food waste at every level of the food system
* [https://www.iknowwhogrewit.org I know who grew it], campaign to fix broken food and farming
* [https://www.thinkeatsave.org/ Think.Eat.Save]


== City farms ==
== Near you ==


City farms are usually community-run projects in urban areas, which involve people interacting and working with animals and plants. They aim to improve community relationships and offer an awareness of agriculture and farming to people who live in built-up areas.
[[Food activism Argentina]] - [[Food activism Ireland]] - [[Food activism UK]] - [[Food UK news]] - [[A People’s Food Policy|A People’s Food Policy (UK)]] - [[Food activism London]] - [[Food activism Hackney]] - [[Food USA]] - [[Food USA news]]


They vary in size from small plots on housing estates to larger farms that occupy a number of acres. It is estimated that more than three million people visit city farms each year and around half a million people work on them as volunteers. Although some city farms have paid employees, most rely heavily on volunteer labour, and some are run by volunteers alone. Others operate as partnerships with local authorities. {{W|City farm}}
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== Community gardening ==
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Community gardens provide fresh produce and plants as well as satisfying labor, neighborhood improvement, sense of community and connection to the environment. They are publicly functioning in terms of ownership, access, and management, as well as typically owned in trust by local governments or not for profit associations. {{W|Community gardening}} / [[Community gardens]]
== See also ==
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== Community-supported agriculture ==
* [[Community action food projects]]
* [[Food activism resources]]
* [[Food news]]
* [[Food security]]
* [[Food Sovereignty]]
* [[Young and beginning farmers]]
* [[Portal:Food and agriculture]]
* [[Agroecology]]
* [[A People’s Food Policy]], a series of (UK) articles
* [[Biodiversity]]
* [[Ethical consumerism]]
* [[Free stuff]]
* [[Localism]]
* [[Sharing]]
* [[Community land trust]]


Community-supported agriculture (CSA; sometimes known as community-shared agriculture) is an alternative, locally-based economic model of agriculture and food distribution. A CSA also refers to a particular network or association of individuals who have pledged to support one or more local farms, with growers and consumers sharing the risks and benefits of food production. CSA members or subscribers pay at the onset of the growing season for a share of the anticipated harvest; once harvesting begins, they receive weekly shares of vegetables and fruit, in a vegetable box scheme. Often, CSAs also include herbs, honey, eggs, dairy products and meat, in addition to conventional produce offerings. In theory a CSA can provide any product to its members, although the majority of CSA operations tend to provide produce, fruits, and various edibles. Some CSA programs also include cut flowers and various ornamental plants as part of their weekly pickup arrangement. Some CSAs provide for contributions of labor in lieu of a portion of subscription costs. While some CSAs include small community deliveries, other CSAs expand to large neighborhoods and beyond, centering with a farmer's market type setup where members can pickup their shares and establish an open forum for other topics that members may be interested in discussing. The farmer's market type CSA usually leads to a more dynamic community stemming from this pickup location. {{W|Community-supported agriculture}} / [[Community Supported Agriculture]]
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== Community-supported fishery ==
 
A community-supported fishery (CSF) is an alternative business model for selling fresh, locally sourced seafood. CSF programs, modeled after increasingly popular community-supported agriculture programs, offer members weekly shares of fresh seafood for a pre-paid membership fee. The first CSF program was started in Port Clyde, [[Maine]], in 2007, and similar CSF programs have since been started across the [[United States]] and in [[Europe]]. Community supported fisheries aim to promote a positive relationship between fishermen, consumers, and the ocean by providing high-quality, locally caught seafood to members. CSF programs began as a method to help marine ecosystems recover from the effects of overfishing while maintaining a thriving fishing community. {{W|Community-supported fishery}}
 
== Food cooperative ==
 
A food cooperative or food co-op is a food distribution outlet organized as a cooperative. Food cooperatives are usually consumers' cooperatives where the decisions regarding the production and distribution of its food is chosen by its members. Food cooperatives follow the 7 Cooperative Principles and typically offer natural foods. Since decisions about how to run a cooperative are not made by outside shareholders, cooperatives often exhibit a higher degree of social responsibility than their corporate analogues. {{W|Food cooperative}}
 
== Garden sharing ==
 
Garden sharing is a local food and urban farming arrangement where a landowner allows a gardener access to land, typically a front or back yard, in order to grow food. This may be an informal, one-to-one relationship, but numerous Web-based projects exist to facilitate matchmaking. In some cases, garden sharing projects are launched as a way to shorten community garden waiting lists that are common in many cities. {{W|Garden sharing}} / [[Yardsharing]]
 
== Gleaning or Food rescue ==
 
Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest. Some ancient cultures promoted gleaning as an early form of a welfare system. {{W|Gleaning}}
 
Food rescue, also called food recovery, is the practice of safely retrieving edible food that would otherwise go to waste, and distributing it to those in need. Organisations that encourage food recovery, food rescue, sharing, gleaning and similar waste-avoidance schemes come under the umbrella of food banks, food pantries or soup kitchens. {{W|Food rescue}}
 
== Guerrilla gardening ==
 
Guerrilla gardening is the act of gardening on land that the gardeners do not have the legal rights to utilize, such as an abandoned site, an area that is not being cared for, or private property. It encompasses a diverse range of people and motivations, ranging from gardeners who spill over their legal boundaries to gardeners with political influences who seek to provoke change by using guerrilla gardening as a form of protest or direct action. This practice has implications for land rights and land reform; aiming to promote re-consideration of land ownership in order to assign a new purpose or reclaim land that is perceived to be in neglect or misused. {{W|Guerrilla gardening}} / [[Guerrilla gardening]]
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== Organise food events ==
 
Examples include:
*Celebratory feasts such as harvest festivals or just social gatherings centred around a meal: a potluck, bring and share food, or a potlatch, see [[United States#Free stuff]]
*Free Compost Give Away Day
*Solar Cookout, for example Sustainable NE Seattle's [http://sustainableneseattle.ning.com/events/second-annual-solar-cookout Second Annual Solar Cookout!]
 
== School-community kitchens ==
 
School-Community Kitchens Concept Paper, [http://www.ecoliteracy.org/downloads/school-community-kitchens Center for Ecoliteracy]
 
== Seed library ==
 
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A seed library is an institution that lends or shares seed. It is distinguished from a seedbank in that the main purpose is not to store or hold germplasm or seeds against possible destruction, but to disseminate them to the public which preserves the shared plant varieties through propagation and further sharing of seed. Seed libraries usually maintain their collections through donations from members, but may also operate as pure charity operations intent on serving gardeners and farmers. A common attribute of many seed libraries is to preserve agricultural [[biodiversity]] by focusing on rare, local, and heirloom seed varieties. {{W|Seed library}}
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'''External links'''
'''External links'''
*[https://seedalliance.org/ Organic Seed Alliance]
*[http://seedlibraries.org/ the seed library social network]
*[http://seedlibraries.net/ seedlibraries.net]
*[http://seedlibraries.weebly.com/sister-libraries.html Sister Libraries], worldwide seed lending libraries listings
== Seed swap ==
Seed swaps can be arranged online or by mail, especially when participants are spread out geographically. Some events are organized as part of an educational effort, where visitors are taught gardening and growing skills and how to preserve an area's cultural heritage and [[biodiversity]]. {{W|Seed swap}}
== Seedy Sunday ==
Seedy Sunday or Seedy Saturday is a catchphrase used for seed swap events that bring the public together with seed savers, to maintain and develop the open pollinated and heritage crop cultivars that are a resource in a community. In some communities the event is a gardening show or may feature local chefs using the heritage plants and seeds. The titles Seedy Saturday and Seedy Sunday are dedicated to the public domain by the event founder Sharon Rempel..''[citation needed]''
The heart of a Seedy Sunday or Seedy Saturday event is the swapping and sale of seeds or other propagation material for public-domain plant cultivars that that have been preserved or developed by individuals or families. These may not require high-input agriculture, and are variously described as landraces, folk varieties, farmer varieties and heritage seed. Sharing information about the social, cultural and culinary aspects of the seed is an important part of heritage seed saving around the world. Providing education about techniques for seed-saving, small-scale agriculture and horticulture, and about local, national and international laws that affect public-domain crop plants can also be an important part of the event. {{W|Seedy Sunday}}
== Urban forest garden or Food Forest ==
''see separate article:'' [[Food forests]]
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== News and comment ==
''See separate article:'' [[Food news]]
== Events ==
'''2015'''
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2015, International Year of Soils {{W|Soil_governance#International_Year_of_Soils}}<br>
"The joint crises of climate change and biodiversity erosion can both be addressed by planting gardens everywhere—full of biodiversity; full of the celebration of life, well-being, and abundance. Gardens of hope everywhere. Farms that give real food. We will continue to create the other world that we are sowing—seed by seed, inch-by-inch of soil, person by person, community by community—until all of this planet is embraced in one circle of a resurgent life and resurgent love. We will not give up." Vandana Shiva, [http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/01/seeds-and-soil-vs-tyranny-corporate-power-2015-message-hope commondreams.org]
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'''October 16''' - World Food Day {{W|World Food Day}}. Annual event. <br clear=left>
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'''October 1''' - World Vegetarian Day {{W|World Vegetarian Day}}. Annual event which initiates the month of October as Vegetarian Awareness Month / [http://www.worldvegetarianday.org/ worldvegetarianday.org] <br clear=left>
'''September 19''' - THE MEAL '15 / [http://www.the-meal.net/ the-meal.net]
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'''May 3''' - International Permaculture Day, Journée Mondiale de la Permaculture / [http://www.permacultureday.org/ permacultureday.org]<br clear=left>
'''2014'''
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December 10 - Terra Madre Day / [http://www.slowfood.com/terramadreday/ slowfood.com]
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== Resources ==
=== Citizens data initiative ===
The number of chronically hungry people is expected to top 1 billion in 2009, up from 850 million in 2007. <ref>[http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6274 Worldwatch Institute], October 1, 2009 </ref>
Why it’s green to be vegetarian: Farmed animals produce more greenhouse gas emissions (18%) than the world’s entire transport system (13.5%). <ref>[https://www.vegsoc.org/silentbutdeadly# Vegetarian Society's Silent But Deadly campaign], launched in September 2007 </ref>
=== How to's ===
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*How to set up a squash growing co-op, [https://www.shareable.net/blog/how-to-set-up-a-squash-growing-co-op Shareable], Feb 25, 2019
*How to organise a Community Potluck, [https://networkofwellbeing.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Comunity-Potluck-Guidelines-by-NOW.pdf Network of Wellbeing],
*How to Create Your Own Seed Lending Library, Feb 23, 2011 [http://www.shareable.net/blog/how-to-create-your-own-seed-lending-library @Shareable]
*[[How to start a community garden]]
*How to Host a Permablitz, July 29, 2013 on [https://www.shareable.net/blog/how-to-host-a-permablitz Shareable]
=== Maps ===
[http://fallingfruit.org falling fruit] – Map the urban harvest!
[http://www.guerrillacartography.org/atlases/ Food: An Atlas] Download Food: An Atlas as an 84.5 MB PDF licensed under Creative Commons. Use and reuse the maps to inspire others with cartography. From Guerrilla Cartography.
Food insecurity and climate change [http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/food-insecurity-index/ metoffice.gov.uk]
[http://mundraub.org/map Mundraub Map]


[http://seedmap.org/about/ Seed Map Project]
* Wikipedia: [[Wikipedia:Allotment (gardening)|Allotment (gardening)]], [[Wikipedia:City farm|City farm]], [[Wikipedia:Community food security|Community food security]], [[Wikipedia:Community gardening|Community gardening]], [[Wikipedia:Community-supported agriculture|Community-supported agriculture]], [[Wikipedia:Community-supported fishery|Community-supported fishery]], [[Wikipedia:Foodshed|Foodshed]], [[Wikipedia:Food bank|Food bank]], [[Wikipedia:Food cooperative|Food cooperative]], [[Wikipedia:Food rescue|Food rescue]], [[Wikipedia:Garden sharing|Garden sharing]], [[Wikipedia:Gleaning|Gleaning]], [[Wikipedia:Guerrilla gardening|Guerrilla gardening]], [[Wikipedia:Local food|Local food]], [[Wikipedia:Seed bombing|Seed bombing]], [[Wikipedia:Seed library|Seed library]], [[Wikipedia:Seed saving|Seed saving]], [[Wikipedia:Seed swap|Seed swap]], [[Wikipedia:Seedy Sunday|Seedy Sunday]], [[Wikipedia:Slow Food|Slow Food]] ''includes'' [[Wikipedia:Slow Food#Criticisms|Criticisms]] section, [[Wikipedia:Terra Madre|Terra Madre]]
* [https://sustainablerice.org/ Sustainable Rice Platform], ''added 15:02, 24 July 2023 (UTC)''
* [https://www.crowdfarming.com/en CrowdFarming], Farm fresh food directly from the farmer. ''added 17:28, 17 December 2020 (UTC)''
* [https://fallenfruit.org/ Fallen Fruit] is a [[Los Angeles]] based artists' collaboration composed of David Burns and Austin Young. The project was originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work.


[http://sharecity.ie/research/sharecity100-database/ SHARECITY100], database of more than 4000 food sharing enterprises across 100 cities around the world, including Asia, Africa, Australia, North and South America, and Europe. The first major output of SHARECITY, a five-year research project at Trinity College Dublin, SHARECITY100 was created to assess the practice and sustainability potential of information and communications technology (ICT)-enabled food sharing within cities.
=== Networks ===
*[http://www.openfoodnetwork.org/ Open Food Network]
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Pam Warhurst from Incredible Edible Todmorden, 12/5/2011, on [http://vimeo.com/23634508 vimeo]
*[http://incredibleediblenetwork.org.uk/ Incredible Edible network]. The Incredible Edible project is an urban gardening project which was started in 2008 by Pamela Warhurst, Mary Clear and a group of like minded people in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, [[United Kingdom|UK]]. The project aims to bring people together through actions around local food, helping to change behaviour towards the environment and to build a kinder and more resilient world. In some cases, it also envisions to have the groups become self-sufficient in food production, hence having all food being produced locally.
:Since its conception, the Incredible Edible ethos has been taken up by communities all over the world and there are now 120 Incredible Edible official groups in the UK and more than 700 worldwide. In 2008 to help sustain existing groups and continue to inspire new ones in the UK, the Incredible Edible Network was launched with Pam Warhurst as its chair and Tanya Wall, as its operational lead.
:In the UK, these groups' collective success has begun to directly influence decision-makers both on a national and local level. In response, the network has evolved from a resource for members into a fully fledged movement, simply known as Incredible Edible. {{W|Incredible Edible}}
[[10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town]], Dec 3, 2013
=== Other links ===
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*[https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0HUVA0kzTpUWGNVT2FZVU82RkE/edit?pref=2&pli=1 BFR Package Deal], a DIY kit for starting a bike-powered food rescue project.
*[http://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/creating-community-polypod Creating a Community Polypod], Permaculture Magazine
*[http://farmlandgrab.org/ farmlandgrab.org]
*[[Farm Hack]] / [http://farmhack.net/ Farm Hack], an open source community for resilient agriculture
*[http://www.foodsystemsacademy.org.uk/ Food Systems Academy], an open education resource to transform our food systems
*[http://foodtank.com/ FoodTank.com], American non-profit organization focused on food sustainability and solutions to hunger, obesity and poverty. {{W|Food Think Tank}}
*[https://www.globalseednetwork.org/ Global Seed Network], free peer-to-peer seed sharing tool
*[http://growstuff.org/ Growstuff], community of food gardeners. "We're building an open source platform to help you learn about growing food, track what you plant and harvest, and swap seeds and produce with other gardeners near you."
*[http://www.foeeurope.org/sites/default/files/publications/foee_hbf_meatatlas_jan2014.pdf Meat Atlas], Facts and figures about the animals we eat
*[https://openfarm.cc/# OpenFarm]
*[http://www.opensourceseedinitiative.org/ Open Source Seed Initiative], dedicated to maintaining fair and open access to plant genetic resources worldwide.
*[http://www.perfectpotluck.com/ PerfectPotluck.com], free tool for coordinating meals for groups
*[http://www.ripenear.me/ Ripe Near Me], local food, home grown vegies, neighborhood fruit
*[http://wefarm.org/ WeFarm] is a unique peer-to-peer knowledge sharing platform for smallholder farmers. WeFarm users can ask and answer farming questions and share farming tips, via SMS or online, enabling farmers in rural areas without internet access to share information without having to leave their farm. WeFarm is built around the principle that rural farming communities in developing countries have generations worth of knowledge to share, but lack the tools to do so. It is therefore one of the few SMS and farming informations service based around peer-to-peer, crowdsourcing of knowledge. Users ask a wide range of questions regarding farming techniques and share information around business ideas, or how to improve livelihoods. {{W|WeFarm}}
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=== Policies ===
Urban agriculture incentive zone in [[San_Francisco#Urban_agriculture_incentive_zone_in_San_Francisco|San Francisco]]
=== Quotes ===
"Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." Wendell Berry <ref>[https://farmerwu.wordpress.com/quotations/wendell-berry-from-the-pleasures-of-eating/ farmerwu.wordpress.com]</ref>
=== Video ===
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''More video:''
GIY Together we Grow on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7DOdWSqoCI youtube]
Farmin' in the HOOD on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyRMvXZIKaw youtube]
What's wrong with our food system, Birke Baehr on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7Id9caYw-Y youtube]
Queen of The Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? (Trailer), 2011, on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=ekoeQodrVoM youtube]
== See also ==
*{{localtopic}}
*[[:category:Food by location|Food by location]] (category)
*[[Biodiversity]]
*[[Ethical consumerism]]
*[[Food news]]
*[[Food security]]
*[[Food Sovereignty]]
*[[Free stuff]]
*[[Localism]]
*[[Sharing]]
*[[Young and beginning farmers]]
*[[Portal:Food and agriculture]]
* [[Community land trust]]
*[[Agroecology]]
== Interwiki links ==
Wikipedia: [[wikipedia:Allotment (gardening)|Allotment (gardening)]], [[wikipedia:City farm|City farm]], [[wikipedia:Community food security|Community food security]], [[wikipedia:Community gardening|Community gardening]], [[wikipedia:Community-supported agriculture|Community-supported agriculture]], [[wikipedia:Community-supported fishery|Community-supported fishery]], [[wikipedia:Foodshed|Foodshed]], [[wikipedia:Food bank|Food bank]], [[wikipedia:Food cooperative|Food cooperative]], [[wikipedia:Food rescue|Food rescue]], [[wikipedia:Garden sharing|Garden sharing]], [[wikipedia:Gleaning|Gleaning]], [[wikipedia:Guerrilla gardening|Guerrilla gardening]], [[wikipedia:Local food|Local food]], [[wikipedia:Seed bombing|Seed bombing]], [[wikipedia:Seed library|Seed library]], [[wikipedia:Seed saving|Seed saving]], [[wikipedia:Seed swap|Seed swap]], [[wikipedia:Seedy Sunday|Seedy Sunday]], [[wikipedia:Slow Food|Slow Food]] ''includes'' [[wikipedia:Slow Food#Criticisms|Criticisms]] section, [[wikipedia:Terra Madre|Terra Madre]]
[[Wikia:solarcooking:Solar_Cookers_International_Network_(Home)|Solar cooking]] wiki
== External links ==
*[http://fallenfruit.org/ Fallen Fruit] is a [[Los Angeles]] based artists' collaboration composed of David Burns and Austin Young. The project was originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work.
:Using photography and video as well as performance and installation art, Fallen Fruit's work focuses on urban space, neighborhood, located citizenship and community and their relationship to fruit. {{W|Fallen Fruit}}
:Using photography and video as well as performance and installation art, Fallen Fruit's work focuses on urban space, neighborhood, located citizenship and community and their relationship to fruit. {{W|Fallen Fruit}}


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*[http://www.farmfromabox.com/ Farm from a Box]
*[http://www.thefoodcommons.org/ The Food Commons]
*[http://www.fian.org/ FIAN International] {{W|Food First Information and Action Network}}
*[http://www.giyinternational.org/ GIY International], Together we grow
*[http://mundraub.org/ Mundraub.org] ''(German?)''
*[http://seedfreedom.info/ Seed Freedom], global movement to defend seed freedom
*[http://www.shareyourmeal.net/ Shareyourmeal.net], What's your neighbor cooking?
 


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* [https://www.farmfromabox.com/ Farm from a Box]
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* [https://mundraub.org/ Mundraub.org] ''(German?)''
* [https://seedfreedom.info/ Seed Freedom], global movement to defend seed freedom
* [https://www.shareyourmeal.net/ Shareyourmeal.net], What's your neighbor cooking?


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This article focuses on networks, events and concepts relevant to Food activism. Separate spin-off articles cover Community action food projecs, Food activism resources and Food news. Appropedia's Food article is a more general and signposting article.

Networks[edit | edit source]

  • Soil Care Network, global community of scholars, researchers, growers, and civil society members from a wide range of backgrounds, all animated by the love of, fascination with, and dedication to soils. We believe that soils are key to addressing current challenges to human and ecological flourishing. And we believe that improving the state of soils and ensuring an abundant future for all life requires action across academic disciplines. added Philralph (talk) 17:27, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
  • Open Food Network, global network of people and organizations working together to build a new food system. "Together, we develop open and shared resources, knowledge and software to support a better food system."
  • Food Swap Network
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  • Incredible Edible network. The Incredible Edible project is an urban gardening project which was started in 2008 by Pamela Warhurst, Mary Clear and a group of like minded people in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, UK. The project aims to bring people together through actions around local food, helping to change behaviour towards the environment and to build a kinder and more resilient world. In some cases, it also envisions to have the groups become self-sufficient in food production, hence having all food being produced locally.
Since its conception, the Incredible Edible ethos has been taken up by communities all over the world and there are now 120 Incredible Edible official groups in the UK and more than 700 worldwide. In 2008 to help sustain existing groups and continue to inspire new ones in the UK, the Incredible Edible Network was launched with Pam Warhurst as its chair and Tanya Wall, as its operational lead.
In the UK, these groups' collective success has begun to directly influence decision-makers both on a national and local level. In response, the network has evolved from a resource for members into a fully fledged movement, simply known as Incredible Edible. W

10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town, Dec 3, 2013

Events[edit | edit source]

  • Event May 20, 2023 (Sat) — World Bee Day, fao.org

Community food security[edit | edit source]

Community food security (CFS) is a relatively new concept that captures emerging ideas about the central place of food in communities. At times it refers to the measure of food access and availability at the community level, and at other times to a goal or framework for place-based food systems. It builds upon the more commonly understood concept of food security, which refers to food access and availability at an individual or household level (in health and social policy, for instance) and at a national or global level (e.g., in international development and aid work). W / See also Food Sovereignty

Local food[edit | edit source]

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Local food or the local food movement is a "collaborative effort to build more locally based, self-reliant food economies - one in which sustainable food production, processing, distribution, and consumption is integrated to enhance the economic, environmental and social health of a particular place." W

More video: The Joy of Local Food on Vimeo

Seasonal food[edit | edit source]

Greater local connection with food and food growing enables communities to better appreciate food in season, thereby strengthening the local food economy.

Foodshed[edit | edit source]

A foodshed is the geographic region that produces the food for a particular population. The term is used to describe a region of food flows, from the area where it is produced, to the place where it is consumed, including: the land it grows on, the route it travels, the markets it passes through, and the tables it ends up on. "Foodshed" is described as a "socio-geographic space: human activity embedded in the natural integument of a particular place." A foodshed is analogous to a watershed in that foodsheds outline the flow of food feeding a particular population, whereas watersheds outline the flow of water draining to a particular location. Through drawing from the conceptual ideas of the watershed, foodsheds are perceived as hybrid social and natural constructs. W

Methods of Distributing Food within a Local Foodshed[edit | edit source]

The “farm-to-table” movement is focused on producing food locally within a foodshed, and delivering it to local consumers. Methods of Distributing Food within a Local Foodshed include Farmers’ markets, Roadside stands, Pick-your-own, Subscription farming and Community-supported agriculture. W

Local Foodshed Mapping[edit | edit source]

The internet can be used to locate foodshed maps of almost any area. Some maps are interactive, where sources in an area can be found for organic produce, microbreweries, farmers’ markets, orchards, cheese makers, or other specific categories within a 100-mile radius. A 100- mile radius is considered "local food" because it is large enough to reach beyond a big city, and small enough to feel truly local. W

Foodsheds and Sustainability[edit | edit source]

Buying local food within a foodshed can be seen as a means to combat the modern food system, and the effects it has on the environment. It has been described as “a banner under which people attempt to counteract trends of economic concentration, social disempowerment and environmental degradation in the food and agricultural landscape.” Choosing to buy local produce improves the environmental stewardship of producers by reducing the amount of energy used in the transport of foods, as well as greenhouse gas emissions. W

Campaigns[edit | edit source]

  • Compassion in World Farming, campaigning and lobbying animal welfare organisation. It campaigns against the live export of animals, certain methods of livestock slaughter, and all systems of factory farming. W
  • Feedback, environmental organisation campaigning to end food waste at every level of the food system
  • I know who grew it, campaign to fix broken food and farming
  • Think.Eat.Save

Near you[edit | edit source]

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See also[edit | edit source]

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