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Why Did the City of Bristol Win the Award?
So any reasons! Here are some top headlines on how Bristol is working to make its food system healthier, more sustainable, and more…
Publications
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Bristol’s Good Food Action Plan 2015-2018: Overview
Why do we need an action plan?
The system for providing food to human communities in England operates in such a way that control rests, in effect, with ‘the market’, whose legally enshrined…
From the Bristol 2015 Company website:
As European Green Capital in 2015, we have an opportunity to share what we know with people all over the country, across Europe and around the world.
To do this as effectively as we…
by Matt Reed and Dan Keech from the SupurbFood project
The City of Bristol, in the southwest of England, is blazing a trail in trying to integrate sustainable and healthy food production within its vision as the 2015 European Green…
by Ana Moragues-Faus, Kevin Morgan:
Abstract. Cities are becoming key transition spaces where new food governance systems are being fashioned, creating ‘spaces of deliberation’ that bring together civil society, private actors, and local governments. In order to understand the potential…
Bristol is one of the 10 partner cities who took part in the URBACT Sustainable Food in Urban Communities project from 2012-2015. The URBACT Thematic Network “Sustainable Food in Urban Communities” is a project involving 10 European cities that wish…
“The 10 cities that participated in the URBACT project [Sustainable Food in urban Communities] have collectively generated a body of knowledge about sustainable food systems that will be of enormous value to their urban peers in the global north and…
The report, written by Beth Webb, Beth Bennet-Britton, and Claire Lowman, can be found here.
Summary
In 2013 the Good Food Plan for Bristol was launched. This sets out 8 themes for changing the food system. The Bristol Food Policy…
Food and planning developmental review. A peer review team visited Bristol City Council on 17 March 2014 and interviewed 14 staff and one elected member about their roles in improving the health, sustainability and resilience of the food system that …
The Contribution of Public Health Bristol to the work of the Bristol Food Policy Council. The purpose of this paper is to enable Food Policy Council members, other directorates within Bristol City Council, and other partner organisations, to see the…