Local foods
Local foods
Food Webs
A report for CPRE by Caroline Cranbrook on local food networks in East Suffolk, which demonstrates the importance of local shops and services to rural communities. It reveals the complex web of interconnection between local producers and farmers and local shops.
Local Action for Local Foods
A campaigners guide to promoting local foods including influencing key players such as local retailers, supermarkets and restaurants; the processes involved; sources of information and how to tailor a local action plan. This guide is best used in conjunction with Sustainable Local Foods.
Mapping Local Food Webs
Methodology and survey
Our campaign briefing shows how to use CPRE’s Food Webs survey as an effective campaigning tool, to map the links map the links in local food production, from producer to processor to retailer to community. The results can be used, for example, to oppose inappropriate development by showing its likely impact on the community and local economy.
The Real Choice
How local foods can survive the supermarket onslaught
Our report shows how local foods – grown, processed and consumed in the same district – can flourish, provided the growth of supermarket chains is restrained by sound planning policies. These 'local food webs' bring a range of social, environmental and economic benefits and help to conserve some of our most beautiful countryside.
