Publications on local food issues

Knead to Know, the Real Bread starter - baking bread for your local community

Knead to Know: the Real Bread starter is the only book dedicated to helping you on the path to success in bringing Real Bread to the heart of your...

A Growing Trade - a guide for community groups growing food to sell in our towns and cities

This Local Action on Food report highlights the commercial opportunities for community grown food and showcases initiatives that are doing it...

Food Supply and Distribution - evaluation of this strand of the Making Local Food Work programme

Independent evaluation of the Food Supply and Distribution strand of the Making Local Food Work programme, conducted by Dr Stuart Jones of the...

Capital Growth monitoring survey findings, Feb 2012

This report presents feedback from Capital Growth food-growing spaces between October 2010 and October 2011. The first 1,000 Capital Growth spaces...

Local Food Links: The first 10 years

A review of the development of Local Food Links by Tim Crabtree, its former director and one of the founders of the Bridport Centre for Local Food....

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...

An investigation into the workings of small-scale food hubs

One of the key challenges facing local food is the issue of economically viable and sustainable distribution. This report analyses 11 small-scale...

Building a Sustainable Food Hub - three reports on research into community food enterprises

These three combined reports share the learning from pioneering projects taking part in the Food Supply and Distribution strand of the Making Local...

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...

Protecting our Orchard Heritage - a good practice guide for managing orchard projects

This publication aims to help orchard projects by supporting practitioners and local communities to enhance, protect and celebrate orchards.

Capital Eats: An analysis of London's food economy

The complexities and significance of the food sector in London is summarised in this report. Europe's biggest city contains a quarter of the UK...

Food and Planning: How London's planners can improve access to healthy and sustainable food

Planners have an influential role to play in making it possible for people to enjoy good, fresh food that is affordable and readily accessible. This...

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...

Briefing: Local Food - benefits, obstacles and opportunities

This paper gives an overview of what local food economies are, the benefits of and obstacles to more local food, and the priority measures needed to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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