- 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
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Growing Food In Cities - Contents
Foreword
Summary and recommendations
How to use this report
1.Introduction
1.1 Why grow food?
1.2 Why in cities?
1.3 Why now?
2.The benefits of growing food in cities
2.1 Community Development
- affirming identity and active citizenship
- combating discrimination
- preventing crime and rehabilitating offenders
2.2 Economic development
- training for jobs and for living
- creating local goods and services
- building an alternative economy
2.3 Education
- learning at school
- acquiring skills beyond school
- involving people with special needs
2.4 Environment
- increasing biodiversity
- tackling waste
- reducing transport
2.5 Health
- improving diets
- encouraging physical activity
- promoting mental health
2.6 Leisure
- stimulating volunteering
- generating sustainable tourism
- developing arts and crafts
2.7 Sustainable neighbourhoods
- reviving allotments
- diversifying parks
- regenerating housing developments
3. Taking action
3.1 Issues affecting food growers in cities
- land
- water
- money and other inputs
- people, knowledge and skills
3.2 Sources of useful information
Appendix
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