Food Cardiff launches new website in food sustainability campaign
9 March 2022
In a campaign aiming to set Cardiff on the path to becoming one of the UK’s most sustainable food places.
The campaign hopes to empower locals to create a thriving local food economy where everyone has access to healthy, and environmentally sustainable food, through ‘making a pledge’.
Food Cardiff’s Sustainable Food Places Coordinator, Pearl Costello explained said: “Food Cardiff believes that the food we eat has a huge impact on life in Cardiff, not just on people’s health, but on communities and businesses, farmers and food producers, and the environment too. Good food creates strong, healthy, resilient communities which thrive.”
The city-wide partnership of more than 200 individuals and organisations is asking people to make a pledge and take action, to help Cardiff achieve Gold Sustainable Food Places status by the year 2024.
“We are so excited to launch this campaign to give every single person, and organisation, in Cardiff a chance to make a pledge, or a few, and put Cardiff on the path to becoming one of the most sustainable cities in the UK,” Pearl continued.
Last year, Cardiff was awarded Sustainable Food Places Silver Award, becoming the first place in Wales, and one of only six places in the UK, to achieve the prestigious accolade.
Sustainable Food Places is one of the fastest-growing social movements today, bringing together pioneering food partnerships from across the UK to drive innovation and best practice on all aspects of healthy and sustainable food.
To win the award, applicants have to demonstrate their efforts in achieving the movement’s six key sustainable food issues:
- Taking a strategic and collaborative approach to good food governance and action.
- Building public awareness, active food citizenship and a local good food movement.
- Tackling food poverty, diet related ill-health and access to affordable healthy food.
- Creating a vibrant, prosperous and diverse sustainable food economy.
- Transforming catering and procurement and revitalising local and sustainable food supply chains.
- Tackling the climate and nature emergency through sustainable food and farming and an end to food waste.
The Food Cardiff strategy board includes ten volunteer members from a range of organisations including but not limited to, Cardiff Council, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Riverside Farmers’ Markets, Public Health Wales and Action in Caerau and Ely.
Through this network, Food Cardiff is driving change at a city level and is working to tackle some of today’s biggest social, economic and environmental issues.