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Local foods

From field to fork: Birstall

This Birstall report is part of a wider project, Mapping Local Food Webs, which builds on the east Suffolk research. It aims to reveal the extent, nature and benefits of local food webs in other parts of England, to increase public and policy makers’ awareness of local food networks and identify ways to improve support for the production, supply and sale of local produce around England.

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From field to fork: Kenilworth

This Kenilworth report is part of a wider project, Mapping Local Food Webs, which builds on the east Suffolk research. It aims to reveal the extent, nature and benefits of local food webs in other parts of England, to increase public and policy makers’ awareness of local food networks and identify ways to improve support for the production, supply and sale of local produce around England.

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From field to fork: Sheffield

Mapping the local food web

This Sheffield report is part of a wider project, Mapping Local Food Webs, which builds on the Suffolk research. It aims to reveal the extent, nature and benefits of local food webs around England, to increase public and policy makers’ awareness of local food networks and identify ways better to support the production, supply and sale of local produce around England.

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From field to fork: Totnes

Mapping the local food web

This Totnes report is part of a wider project, Mapping Local Food Webs, which builds on the Suffolk research. It aims to reveal the extent, nature and benefits of local food webs around England, to increase public and policy makers’ awareness of local food networks and identify ways better to support the production, supply and sale of local produce across England.

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From field to fork: Knutsford

Mapping the local food web

This Knutsford report is part of a wider project, Mapping Local Food Webs, which builds on the east Suffolk research. It aims to reveal the extent, nature and benefits of local food webs in other parts of England, to increase public and policy makers’ awareness of local food networks and identify ways to improve support for the production, supply and sale of local produce around England.

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From field to fork: Hastings

Mapping the local food web

This Hastings report is part of a wider project, Mapping Local Food Webs, which builds on the Suffolk research. It aims to reveal the extent, nature and benefits of local food webs around England, to increase public and policy makers’ awareness of local food networks and identify ways better to support the production, supply and sale of local produce around England.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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