Green Food Project blues
Oh so English? The initial conclusions of England’s Green Food Project make frustrating reading for those who placed their food policy hopes in the last government’s Food 2030 report – and the...
View ArticleGood Food for London conference
It's all happening in London If anyone is in London next week Tuesday (11th September) is the launch of the latest version of the Good Food for London report. The report ranks all 33 London boroughs...
View ArticleUsing food to regenerate the High Street
Work complete at Walthamstow Market Here in the UK there is a growing movement towards using food to regenerate our high streets in our recession-hit ghost town-centres, where failed retail premises...
View ArticleIntroducing IUFN, a new network to share knowledge on urban food governance
Hungry City conference flyer The International Urban Food Network (IUFN) was formally launched in Paris last week to bring together researchers and local authorities, in developed and emerging...
View ArticleA roller-coaster of sub-national food policy potential
Sub-national food policy in the UK is under threat from budget cuts, central government apathy, and institutional carve-ups. Yet there’s still hope in pestering governments at all levels – from the...
View ArticleWhere next for food in London?
Ideas for London food, post Capital Growth Whilst on my secondment with civil society coalition Sustain I was asked to take my old journalist’s notebook down off the shelf, blow off the thick layer of...
View ArticleWebinar 12th March ‘Urban Food Strategies: Frameworks and Governance
In the framework of the Purefood and Foodlinks European projects, which promote research and practice on sustainable food systems, we are holding a webinar on Urban Food Strategies to explore recent...
View ArticleUrban food strategies webinar recording
Dear colleagues, Thank you for your participation in the webinar Urban Food Strategies: Frameworks and Governance, with presentations from Kevin Morgan, Jessica Jane Spayde and Jess Halliday. We were...
View ArticleRevaluing Public Sector Food Procurement in Europe: An Action Plan for...
The Revaluing Public Food Procurement CoP of the Foodlinks project has published a new and innovative report: “Revaluing Public Sector Food Procurement in Europe: An Action Plan for Sustainability.”...
View ArticleSmall producers in public procurement – report from the Purefood Conference
The final PUREFOOD conference was held in Utrecht earlier this month – that’s right folks, the 12 ESRs are ending their contracts with the partner universities, although most of us will take some...
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