- 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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Contents
Summary
1. Introduction
A. The Community Mapping Project
i Participatory Appraisal
ii Differences and similarities, compared to other approaches
B. The pilot projects: Why we did what we did
i Who "we" are
ii Why we did it
iii What we did
C. The purpose of this report
2. The Community Mapping Project in Brighton, Coventry and Leciester
Brighton - Community Mapping in Hollingdean
Coventry - Food for Life in Foleshill
Leicester - Nosh ‘n’ Dosh in Braunstone
3. What we learnt
A. Use plenty of different places and methods, and enjoy experimenting!
i Places
ii Methods
B. Involve everyone, expect diversity (but be clear about responsibilities)
i Involve everyone
ii Expect diversity
iii Clarify responsibilities
C. Be flexible and realistic
i Flexibility
ii Realism 65
D. Allow plenty of time and money
E. Check, check and check again (and keep good records)
F. Protect people’s privacy
G. Get everyone’s commitment to the process and the results
4. Reason for recommending community mapping
A. It enhances skills and confidence
B. It reaches the parts other methods don’t reach
C. It provides – immediately – plenty of high quality information (and not just about food)
i Food and children
ii Transport
iii Money
iv Quality of the shops
v Places to eat and meet socially
vi Time and facilities
vii Knowledge and skills
D. It leads to creative action
E. It contributes to, and can be integrated with other initiatives to improve an area
5. Conclusions and recommendations
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