Sustainweb
- For better school food, and food skills, and protecting children from junk food marketing
- An informal network of London restaurants and catering businesses that care about sustainability
- 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…
- Local and regional activity that promotes healthy and sustainable food
- Helping producers, consumers, retailers and caterers provide healthy and sustainable food
- Reconnecting people and land through local 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
- Inspired by the London 2012 Food Vision, the campaign for healthy and sustainable food in catering
- Challenging businesses and citizens to make London the world's first Sustainable Fish City
- Sustainable food news in London
- Demonstrating and promoting the benefits of urban agriculture
- 2,012 new food growing spaces by the end of 2012
- Find or set up a Food Co-op in your area
- For bread made with natural ingredients
menu
- Join now
- What can we do for you?
- Local policies and food
- Growing food
- Cooking food
- Selling food
- A growing trade
- Useful links
read our latest articles
A big idea for local food?
With the Big Society concept refusing to go away, it’s time to explore what it could mean for the local food sector, says Clare Panjwani.
The whole world’s seeds in our hands
Tom Moggach learns about a new research project which is cataloguing the more unusual fruit and vegetables being grown up and down the country.
The aerial edible gardener
Self-styled London rooftop adventurer Helen Babbs shares her experiences of cultivating a fragrant, food-filled jungle above the city.
A growing trade: helping communities take control of their food production
Polly Higginson reports from the recent Local Action on Food ‘Growing your own business’ event.
the network
Local Action on Food is an active network of people and projects from across the UK that are working towards Sustain’s goal of creating a strong and healthy sustainable food system. Members range from community food groups, to farm shops and local authorities.
Join this network to:
- Find out what food work is going on locally across the country through our printed publication, e-newsletter and online articles
- Get a discount on our national and regional events
- Receive a regular round-up of the latest funding news
- Get exclusive discounts on useful products and services
- Promote your project via our network
- Get information about Sustain's work with regular updates and actions
- Support us in helping make this network thrive
Find out more and join the network now
Local Action on Food is supported by the Making Local Food Work programme and funded by the Big Lottery Changing Spaces programme. The Making Local Food Work programme aims to reconnect people and land through local food by increasing access to fresh, healthy, local food with clear, traceable origins.
Sustain coordinates the Food Co-ops and Food Distribution and Supply areas of work under the Making local Food Work programme. Free advice is also available on enterprise support, governance, community supported agriculture, community shops and Country Markets.
report
Good planning for good food
How the planning system in England can support healthy and sustainable food.This report explores how local authorities and communities can use planning policy and decisions to create more local and sustainable food systems.
contact
To contact the network email ross@sustainweb.org or suzanne@sustainweb.org or phone 020 7 837 1228
Very worrying news that govt has plans to strip back environmental regulation http://t.co/JvzllISvNew Food Pricing Report Launched - A Healthy Profit: A simple guide to pricing the food you make or grow. Have a read - http://t.co/yVaqWQ1EGuild of Food Writers Awards this year include two new Awards, for Food Blog of the Year and Food Magazine or Section http://t.co/rrxEuoZo
Registered charity (no.