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Why Did the City of Bristol Win the Award?
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From the Bristol City Council website:
Bristol has scooped the top award from the Sustainable Food City Network, recognising the pioneering work in the city to promote healthy and sustainable food.
The Sustainable Food Cities Award is designed to highlight…
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…
At our last meeting on 8th July, 2015, we welcomed Simon Wood as our new Chair of the Bristol Food Policy Council. Simon is Director of Estates, Facilities and Capital Planning at Bristol North NHS Trust. Previously he was Head…
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…