Making Local Food Work publications

Food & Finance: How small-scale food enterprises raise the money to grow

The Food & Finance report presents the findings of research into how small-scale food businesses and community food enterprises have secured...

Financing community food: Securing money to help community food enterprises to grow

This report examines the funding needs of community food enterprises and how they can continue to use food to achieve a wide variety of important...

A Healthy Profit - a simple guide to pricing the food you make or grow

This report aims to help community food organisations price their produce, to cover their costs and make enough healthy profit to fund other social...

Growing Communities: manual of monitoring and evaluation

This report details the way in which the pioneering social enterprise, Growing Communities, monitors and evaluates its work. As well as explaining...

Growing Manchester(s) Veg People - a guide to setting up a growers' and buyers' co-operative

This practical guide details the creation and development of an innovative growers' and buyers' co-operative aiming to increase the availability of...

The story of Moss Brook Growers - how to set up a horticultural enterprise from scratch

This manual gives a step by step guide to how Moss Brook Growers set up a mixed horticultural social enterprise from scratch. It will be invaluable...

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...

Information Technology and small-scale food organisations: Is IT a nightmare?

This paper aims to share the experience that Sustain has had in working with community-run enterprises that trade in local and sustainable food, to...

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....

Joining-the-Dots... Collaborative food buying and sustainable distribution for London restaurants

This report is one of a series that analyses opportunities for improving the sustainability and economic viability of food supply chains serving...

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...

Feeding the Future: Policy options for local food - A discussion paper

Written in 2003, this report sets out the many policy ideas generated over recent years to support the local food sector, and to stimulate policy...

Briefing: What the English Regional Development Agencies do to support sustainable food economies

Written in 2002, this paper looks at what each English Regional Development Agency has done, and is planning to do, to support sustainable food...

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...

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...

Grow a Grocery: A guide to starting and growing a wholefood co-operative

This guide is designed to help bring more wholefood co-operatives into the world by spreading the business model tried and tested by Unicorn Grocery...

East London Green Grid: Supporting community food growing in East London

This report from Capital Growth reflects on how community food growing and horticultural enterprises can support the aims of the East London Green...

Growing Round the Houses: Food production on housing estates

A briefing paper by Sustain and the Women's Environmental Network (WEN), explaining how social housing providers and their tenants can work together...

Ethical Hijack - defending local and seasonal food from misleading marketing by the food industry

The Ethical Hijack report sets out the case for why the terms 'local', 'seasonal' and 'farmers' market' should be defended from abuse by the food...

London Food Link hospital food project distribution research report

This research report, which was commissioned by London Food Link, and carried out by Westley Consulting Ltd, highlights some of the distribution...

Bread Street: The British baking bloomer?

Bread is cheap and plentiful and remains a dietary staple. But this report shows that we are losing diversity in our bread supplies and in the...

Briefing: Public Procurement of Sustainable Food - review of activity 2002 to 2004

This briefing paper - reviewing activities to improve public sector food between 2002 and 2004 - is one of several on themes relating to Sustainable...

Briefing: Public Procurement of Sustainable Food - current, planned and related initiatives

This briefing paper, explores 30 examples of sustainable food procurement and policy initiatives to improve public sector food. The paper is one of...

Briefing: Public Sector Catering - opportunities and issues relating to sustainable food procurement

This briefing paper - examining opportunities and issues relating to sustainable food procurement in the public sector - is one of several on themes...

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...

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...

City Harvest: The feasibility of growing more food in London

This report on the feasibility of food production in cities, taking London as its example, is relevant to all urban areas. It assess how, and to what...

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...

Growing Food In Cities: The benefits of urban agriculture in the UK

This groundbreaking 1996 report on the benefits of urban food growing contains 38 case studies from across the UK and beyond, showing how to take...

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