Food Plymouth is the City’s recognised Local Food Partnership
A ‘central connecting hub’ for all food-related matters in the City.
Our multi-sector award winning partnership, founded in 2010, comprises a diverse mix of agencies, organisations, businesses, community groups and individual citizens, all working together to actively promote and lobby for healthy, sustainable and affordable food as a driver for positive change.
The collaborative work of the Food Plymouth partnership is expressed through the six strands of our action plan, each of which focuses on transforming a different aspect of our food system. The six themes are illustrated in our symbolic lighthouse diagram, detail for each theme can be found on the Actions page.
The Food Plymouth partnership and network is facilitated and resourced by Food Plymouth CIC
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Actions
Promoting healthy and sustainable food to the public
Increasing public awareness of and interest in healthy and sustainable food is a vital first step to creating a positive food culture. There are many ways of developing powerful and communication and engagement programmes that address this theme, and lots of innovative work is already taking place in Plymouth, which helped us to achieve our bronze SFC standard.
https://foodplymouth.org/actions/promoting-healthy-and-sustainable-food-to-the-public/
Tackling food poverty, diet-related ill-health and access to affordable healthy food
Tackling food-related inequalities is one of today’s most urgent challenges if we are to stem the rising tide of hunger, obesity and diet-related ill-health. Following the recommendations highlighted in the Plymouth Fairness Commission, Plymouth is engaged in a range of activities, with many partners on board working collaboratively to tackle the issue of poor food access and food insecurity in the city. Food Plymouth’s Food Equality Project helps to deliver this Action Strand of the Sustainable Food Cities framework for Plymouth.
Building community food knowledge, skills, resources and projects
Positive food change can be enabled through grassroots action and innovation. Plymouth has many ongoing projects that build the vital knowledge, skills and capacity to make that change happen.
https://foodplymouth.org/actions/building-community-food-knowledge-skills-resources-and-projects/
Promoting a vibrant and diverse sustainable food economy
Food culture transformation requires action from local people as well as the players in the various systems that support it. Food system change must also be good for local economies, businesses and jobs. Plymouth is engaged in some pioneering work that promotes a stronger and more resilient food economy.
https://foodplymouth.org/actions/promoting-a-vibrant-and-diverse-sustainable-food-economy/
Transforming catering and food procurement
With nearly 50% of all food eaten outside the home, catering and procurement offers one of the most effective ways to drive large scale changes in healthy and sustainable food. Plymouth is already engaged in a range of positive changes in relation to procurement, e.g. school meals service, hospital and care homes.
https://foodplymouth.org/actions/transforming-catering-and-food-procurement/
Reducing waste and the ecological footprint of the food system
Food Plymouth will actively support partners who are campaigning and running activities that raise awareness of food waste and how to reduce it. This work includes supporting producers, processors, retailers and caterers to reduce their ecological impact, by offering advice and training on sustainable production techniques. Action for this theme will involve the food waste hierarchy being incorporated into policies, strategies and services to ensure surplus is being optimally diverted.
https://foodplymouth.org/actions/reducing-waste-and-the-ecological-footprint-of-the-food-system/
