The Mapping Local Food Webs strand of the Making Local Food Work programme is coordinated by project officer Thea Platt (theap@cpre.org.uk), working for the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England and in partnership with Sustain. The main website reporting on work under this strand is hosted separately. On these pages, we report on work specific to Sustain and relevant to Sustain's network for Local Action on Food.
Sustain has contributed to another strand of the Making Local Food Work programme, led by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE). This investigates and applies different models of community mapping (originally developed by Sustain’s Food Access Network) and local food web mapping (as originally instigated by Caroline Cranbrook in the East of England).
An evaluation partner is working with the project throughout, to assess the different models and their application, and to develop training materials for further work. CPRE recruited trainers and volunteers around the country to undertake extensive mapping work, to help understand the role of food in building local economic resilience.
During 2008 and 2009, Sustain's policy director Kath Dalmeny worked closely with Graeme Willis and other staff from CPRE to draw up a contract, develop a workplan, issue an evaluation tender and recruit a member of staff, Thea Platt, who now coordinates the work on behalf of CPRE. We continue to be involved in the development and promotion of this work.
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