Food strategy resources

We are working on a strategy for the Incredible Edible Lambeth umbrella group and I put together this list of resources. I’m posting it here so we have it handy and for anyone else interested. Please contact ttbfood@gmail.com for any materials without a link.

Lambeth strategy and ‘Can Lambeth Feed Itself?’

• Lambeth Food Strategy – report and presentation from Sophie Neuberg: sent out by Sue Sheehan
• Articles on ‘Can Britain Feed Itself’ etc. Also there was an event with a panel discussion on ‘Can Lambeth Feed Itself’ at the South London Botanical Institute last year – I think we have a couple of the presentations.

Transition Town Brixton general and Food and Growing Group strategy

• Transition Town Brixton draft strategy – current year’s strategy is in an appendix (Annex 4), previous year’s strategy is the body of the document :https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AStdmJz4-kEfZGh0dm5rNF80ZGZ6NHpjaGY&hl=en
• TTB Food and Growing group vision: http://www.transitiontownbrixton.org/2009/12/mission-vision-edap/
• TTB Food and Growing group strategy – some detail for a Working Group Forum meeting: http://www.transitiontownbrixton.org/2009/12/minutes-mind-maps/ (Strategy and Questions for Working Group Forum 27/7/10)
• TTB Food and Growing group visioning results: around 250 people involved in 3 public events in 2009:http://www.transitiontownbrixton.org/2009/12/future-of-food-open-space/

London and UK government strategy and reports

• Report giving stats for agricultural land use in and around London and is a useful recent report. It is from the London Assembly Housing and Planning Committee: ‘Cultivating the Capital:  Food Growing and the Planning System in London’, January 2010.It is also available here:http://www.london.gov.uk/who-runs-london/the-london-assembly/publications/housing-planning/cultivating-capital-food-growing-and-planning-system-london Direct link to pdf: http://www.london.gov.uk/archive/assembly/reports/plansd/growing-food.pdf

Quote: ‘The world’s only Professor of Food Policy told the Committee “we are sleepwalking into a major problem when it comes to food”.

• Defra report: ‘Food 2030’ and related publications: http://www.defra.gov.uk/foodfarm/food/strategy/index.htm
• London Borough Food Policies – this is out of date, but has some useful notes on the different approaches – ‘food system, population and thematic’ :http://www.sustainweb.org/page.php?id=357
• ‘How London’s planners can improve access to healthy and affordable food’ – (2004? But useful guidance and good quotes)http://www.sustainweb.org/pdf/lfl_planning_guidance.pdf

Health benefits of climate change policies

• Report showing the health benefits of climate change behavior change – may be useful for reference: ‘The Health Benefits of Tackling Climate Change’ – The Lancet: http://download.thelancet.com/flatcontentassets/series/health-and-climate-change.pdf
• More on health benefits: ‘The health co-benefits of climate change policies: doctors have a responsibility to future generations.’ Roberts I. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19634380