- For better school food, and food skills, and protecting children from junk food marketing
- Evidence of the contribution of food and farming to climate change
- Highlighting the connections between diet, mental health and behaviour
- How action can protect the environment, enhance social justice and improve health
- Campaigning for a law on healthy and sustainable food for schools, hospitals, care homes…
- Practical help to increase healthy and sustainable food in schools, hospitals, care homes…
- Free training on healthy and sustainable food for public sector caterers
- Local and regional activity that promotes healthy and sustainable food
- Helping producers, consumers, retailers and caterers provide healthy and sustainable food
- Working for sustainable food at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
- Practical advice for anyone interested in buying and using more sustainable food
- Spreading information about urban food growing in London, the UK and worldwide
- Working in 10 deprived London areas to improve access to affordable and sustainable food
- 2,012 new food growing spaces for London by 2012
- Find or set up a Food Co-op in your area
- Pledge to make our future an organic future
- To increase the enjoyment, production and consumption of bread made with natural ingredients
Rhubarb
Rhubarb is the quarterly magazine for Local Action on Food, available to all members of the network.
Food Hubs
Two new Making Local Food Work reports released:
Help at Hand in Finding the Plot
Download the event report from the access to land event organised by The Local Action on Food Network and The Women's Environmental Network in October 2009. If you have any other queries in regards to this then please email polly@sustainweb.org.
Tell us what you want
The Local Action on Food network is marking its first birthday by asking its members and supporters what they want If you have a spare few minutes then please complete one of our surveys. The results of these will help shape our work programme over the next year, therefore, the more information we can gather at this stage the better! Many thanks for your time and if you have any queries then please contact polly@sustainweb.org
- Member Survey - for paying members of Local Action on Food
- Non Member Survey - for people that are interested in our work
Local Action on Food Network
Bringing together a wide range of organisations and individuals working to improve the food system, and aiming to:
So whether you’re a community project or business; a local government department or a farmer; a food writer or someone else involved in the food sector, the Local Action on Food network aims to support your work and link you with similar initiatives across the country.
Improve the security and sustainability of the nation’s food system
Menu
- Join the network
- About the network
- Current activities
- Food co-ops
- NEW Rhubarb magazine
- Publications
- Local policies and food
- Green Belt survey
- News and funding
- Take action
- Project update
- Links
- Members directory
Contact
For more information please contact Polly Higginson:
- polly@sustainweb.org
- 020 7837 1228
