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East Sussex Food and Health Partnership

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East Sussex Food and Health Partnership

Contributed by:Healthy Futures

Organisation:Sustainable Development Commission

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Promoting sustainable local food systems that support improved health andnutrition, for the benefit of consumers, producers and the environment

Overview

The Partnership brings organisations together fromacross the food system to ensure a co-ordinatedapproach to addressing food supply, access andconsumption. The vision is to promote a sustainable local food system that supports good nutrition, human and animal health, which reconnects, and works for the benefit of consumers, producers and the environment.

The Partnership works throughout East Sussex toincrease:

• the availability, affordability, acceptabilityand awareness of a healthy diet

• understanding of food and farming by thegeneral public

• the proportion of land that is farmed in anenvironmentally sustainable manner and

with high regard for animal welfare

• levels of skills and knowledge in the localfood system including maintaining the safetyof food

• the number of food producers and processorssourcing, selling and adding value to locallyproduced food

• the use of local produce in public and privatesector catering

• proportion of food produced and consumedlocally

• biological diversity in production systems

And also to support communities to determine theirfood choices and reduce the consumption of energyin the distribution and packaging of food.

The East Sussex Food and Health Partnershipis a great example of how working in

partnership can promote sustainable foodproduction and procurement at a local level.

Members include NHS Trusts, voluntary sectororganisations, local authorities and otherlocal and national agencies andorganisations.

Having started out four years ago with nofunding, the partnership has now securednearly £1 million to run local projects withthe overarching aim to promote asustainable local food system that supportsgood nutrition and human and animalhealth, and which benefits consumers,producers and the environment. The Partnership runs a range of food action projects which are listed below.

Grab 5 Be Alive – promoting a whole schoolapproach to food

• Community Chefs – working with communitygroups, schools, farmers markets and villageshops to increase cookery skills and celebratelocal foods

• Fresh Ideas – supporting the development ofcommunity food projects

• Village Shops – increasing the shelf spaceallocated to fruit and vegetables and buildinglinks with local producers

• Farmers Markets – supporting theestablishment of farmers markets throughout

East Sussex

• Sussex Foodfinder – directory of local produce

• Community Dietitian – working to supportgood nutrition in care homes

• Training Programme – from food growing tocookery, from food in schools to setting upcommunity food projects

• Awareness Campaigns – A Feast of WordsPoetry competition

• Healthy Living– supporting access to ahealthy diet for older people

Robin van Creveld, Food and Health Partnership Community Chef with pupils from Red Lake Community Primary School in Hastings at the launch of Grab 5 Be Alive!

“To us this is about broadening out thepublic health agenda – and seeing ahealthy ecosystem as the foundation forpublic health.”Sarah Davies, the programme manager

Key features

food

health

Key data

Completion Date: 11/05/2005

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