Sustainweb
- Growing food together
- Calling for hospital food standards
- Campaigning for bees, forage and a pesticide free city
- 2,012 new food growing spaces by the end of 2012
- 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
- Find or set up a Food Co-op in your area
- Helping producers, consumers, retailers and caterers provide healthy and sustainable food
- Inspired by the London 2012 Food Vision, the campaign for healthy and sustainable food in catering
- Sustainable food news in London
- Working for sustainable food at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
- For bread made with natural ingredients
- Challenging businesses and citizens to make London the world's first Sustainable Fish City
- Practical advice for anyone interested in buying and using more sustainable food
Welcome to London Food Link
Campaigning for a healthy, sustainable and ethical food system for the Capital
Through our London focused projects we strive for a food system that benefits all Londoners. You can support our work by joining the London Food Link Network, a network of organisations and individuals helping to transform the Capital’s food.
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We run a network of organisations and individuals who care about food
Join the network and help us shout louder. Find out more about the network and the benefits on offer.
Capital Growth
London's food growing network
Ethical Eats
A network of London restaurants and catering businesses that care about sustainability
Sustainable Fish
Challenging businesses and citizens to make London the world's first Sustainable Fish City
Capital Bee
Campaigning for the Capital's pollinatorsOther projects
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How Does Your Borough Do? Good Food for London
London councils have an important role to play in creating a healthy, ethical and sustainable food system that benefits all Londoners but which boroughs are showing leadership on these issues and which are lagging behind?
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Recipe for revitalising food
Kathryn Quin investigates food’s crucial role in the regeneration of the streets of our city. more
The butcher’s banger
The sausage is one of our much-loved comfort foods, hence the popularity of the Jellied Eel’s Love Your Local Sausage competition, now in its second year. Jenny Linford reveals the results. more
Thin end of the veg?
With National Vegetarian Week upon us, we asked Evie Saffron-Strands to investigate whether London’s restaurants are getting on-trend and making veg a star not a sideline. more
Publications
Click on the publications listed below to find out more information and download your copy.
Good Food Guide: For chefs, caterers and culinary students
23/04/2013
This handy guide aims to provide practical advice on how to implement positive changes within established restaurants, cafés and catering businesses, as well as help encourage those at the start of their culinary career to take food sustainability to the next level.
Real Bread Maker Week guide (for profesional bakers)
21/03/2013
A guide for profesional bakers on helping the Real Bread Campaign to raise dough to do good
Real Bread Maker Week guide (for homebakers)
21/03/2013
A free guide for home bakers on helping the Real Bread Campaign to raise dough to do good
Financing community food: Securing money to help community food enterprises to grow
14/01/2013
This report examines the funding needs of community food enterprises and how they can continue to use food to achieve a wide variety of important social and environmental benefits.
Food & Finance: How small-scale food enterprises raise the money to grow
14/01/2013
The Food & Finance report presents the findings of research into how small-scale food businesses and community food enterprises have secured funding to support their work. It also presents a summary of interviews with representatives from a range of lenders and funding organisations, and their views on challenges particular to the small-scale food sector.
Better Breakfasts: a guide to help your morning menu rise and shine
25/09/2012
Breakfast can be a surprisingly complicated affair from a sustainability point of view. Coffee from impoverished farmers in developing countries, pork from low-welfare pigs, eggs from caged hens, tomatoes from hot-houses in Holland, intensively farmed salmon. But Ethical Eats is here to help, with the Better Breakfasts guide, which gives you all the information you need to help your morning menu rise and shine!
Good Food for London 2012 - London Borough maps of progress on healthy and sustainable food
11/09/2012
The 2012 Good Food for London report provides maps of London’s 33 Boroughs to reveal how London Boroughs are taking action to help create a healthy and sustainable food system, for the benefit of everyone. It assesses London Borough progress on issues such as community food growing, school food, food waste, encouraging food outlets to serve healthier food, and buying ethical products, including Fairtrade, free range eggs and sustainable fish. It also reflects on progress (mostly very good!) since the maps of action on good food by London Boroughs were first produced in 2011.
The Obesity Games - junk food sponsorship of the Olympic Games
26/07/2012
The inside track on the marketing strategies of Olympic food and soft drink sponsors, and the sponsorship deals behind them.
Capital Growth monitoring survey findings, Feb 2012
28/02/2012
This report presents feedback from Capital Growth food-growing spaces between October 2010 and October 2011. The first 1,000 Capital Growth spaces were asked to provide feedback on their projects, the support they have received and the wider impact of food growing. In total, 727 groups completed the survey, whose food growing sites involve 32,026 people across London.
Good Food for London 2011 - London Borough maps of progress on healthy and sustainable food
17/11/2011
The 2011 Good Food for London report provides maps of London’s 33 Boroughs to reveal how London Boroughs are taking action to help create a healthy and sustainable food system, for the benefit of everyone. It assesses London Borough progress on issues such as community food growing, school food, food waste, encouraging food outlets to serve healthier food, and buying ethical products, including Fairtrade, free range eggs and sustainable fish.
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