Food Access Network publications

Buywell Retail Project - final report

The Buywell Retail project aimed to support local convenience stores to improve access to fresh, affordable and sustainable fruit and veg in...

Food With Latitude: A report exploring food project links across the North-South divide

This report, written in partnership with Oxfam, describes research into links between community food projects in the North and South of the globe. It...

Hunger from the inside: The experience of food poverty in the UK

This report demonstrates the benefits of putting communities at the heart of action to tackle food poverty and social exclusion. Through the words of...

Food Poverty: Policy Options for the new Millennium

This report revisits the issues raised in the first Sustain report Food Poverty: What are the policy options? published in 1998. It looks at what has...

Community Food Projects: A directory of projects on the Food Poverty Database

Published in 2003, this directory lists over 260 community projects from the Food Poverty Projects Database. The database is managed by Sustain's...

Too Much and Too Little? Debates on surplus food redistribution

Surplus food, such as food approaching its sell-by date or agricultural produce taken off the market to stabilise prices, is redistributed to poor...

Developing Local Networks to Tackle Food Poverty

A summary report covering five community seminars on tackling food poverty. It investigates opportunities at local and national levels for taking...

Tackling Inequalities in Health and Diet-related Disease

Developing successful inter-agency partnerships was the focus of a seminar to promote fruit and veg consumption among low income groups. ...

Myths About Food and Low Income

This document for community and health workers, and local and national policy makers, challenges the myths and assumptions about people's ability to...

Cracking Community Cafes: Your people

This fact sheet looks at leading and managing the people involved in your community café. It suggests some simple things you can do to build a...

Cracking Community Cafés: Getting the food right

The second in an series of fact sheets produced by Ethical Eats and Making Local Food Work to help new and existing community cafés get to grips...

Checkouts checked out - how supermarkets promote junk food to children and their parents

Results of a survey of national supermarkets and high-street chains. It found that food and drinks are regularly displayed at the checkouts and in...

Finding the Plot: Access to land for food growing groups in urban areas

Report and workshop notes from an event jointly organised by Sustain's Local Action on Food network and The Women's Environmental Network, organised...

Food Access & Social Housing: How to help residents gain access to good food

In a city as wealthy as London, residents have a right to a clean, comfortable and neighbourly place to live and a safe, health-enhancing and tasty...

Reaching the Parts... Community mapping: Working together to tackle social exclusion and food poverty

Community Mapping uses participatory appraisal methods to enable local people to analyse their food economies and work with others to develop...

SRBs to PCTs: Understanding local structures and area-based initiatives to tackle food poverty

Are you up to speed with your 'SRBs', your 'RDAs' and your 'LSPs'? Do you know your Neighbourhood Renewal from your Community...

Making Links: A Toolkit for Local Food Projects (revised edition)

This revised and updated pack is stuffed with information and inspiration for starting up or developing a successful community food project to...

A Battle in store. A discussion of the social impact of the major UK supermarkets

Sustain's report reveals the complex effects of supermarkets on society and why the social and environmental problems they create, the unfair...

Get Cooking!

Cooking for yourself is a skill everyone needs to be an independent and healthy adult. The Get Cooking! project puts cooking back into everyone's...

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