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The urban food question is forcing itself up the political agenda in the Global North because of a new food equation that spells the end of the ‘cheap food’ era, fuelling nutritional poverty in the cities of Europe and North America. This article explores the rise of the urban food...

The Bristol Food Policy Council developed an action plan to champion progress towards Bristol becoming a healthier, fairer and more sustainable food city. The Good Food Plan (2015-2018) is in essence a planning and monitoring tool which will highlight the depth and breadth of food activity in Bristol. This will help...

The health, wellbeing and social benefits of gardening, horticulture therapy and food growing are becoming better established and documented. Growing Health is a project by Garden Organic and Sustain to see how community food growing can be routinely used by the health and social care services as a way of promoting...

A number of initiatives are being supported by statutory and non-statutory organisations. These include food banks, food kitchens, community food-buying schemes, school breakfast clubs and lunch clubs for older people. They represent a very powerful response to hunger in our communities. Food banks and other forms of emergency food aid provision...

Municipalities and regional districts are key players in the Canadian food system. Through a Canada-wide survey, we were able to determine that 64 local and regional municipalities are working to improve the food system through a combination of municipal policies and programs as well as civil society interventions.