The climate change and sustainability strategy
Sustainable food systems
Working in partnership with others to increase sustainable food production, develop equitable food systems across the district, enable greater local food reliance, and prevent food waste.
Lewes District Food Partnership
Connecting sustainable food businesses, local growers and producers, emergency food providers, food waste activists and social eating spaces.
Lewes District Food Partnership
Lewes Friday Food Market
Lewes Local Community Interest Company (CIC) is a not-for-profit company with the broad aims of developing sustainable local food systems and making it easier for more people to buy good, healthy, seasonal food.
Lewes Farmers Market
Carefully sourced local produce supporting the rural economy.
Community Growing
The Council is keen to support community growing initiatives and this guidance aims to ensure applications are robust, well thought through and appropriate for any given site.
Homes First Community Growing Spaces - Guidance and Application Process (PDF) [239KB]
LDC agricultural and land use study (PDF) [1MB]
Food waste
BBC: How cutting your food waste can help the climate
All food generates greenhouse gases to reach our plates, but when nearly a third of it is thrown away or wasted.
BBC - How Cutting Food Waste Can Help The Climate
United Nations News
Wasting food just feeds climate change, new UN environment report warns.
Love Food Hate Waste
Tips and advice to eliminate household food waste.
Diet and climate change
WWF - What we eat matters to our own health and to our Planet's health
BBC climate change food calculator
Find out your diet's carbon footprint.
BBC climate change food calculator
The National Trust: Food
Europe's largest conservation charity, looking after nature, beauty and history for the nation to enjoy. Sustainably produced, local and seasonal food is better for the environment.
Friends of the Earth: Food production and sustainable farming
Part of an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it.
Friends of the Earth - Food Production and Sustainable Farming
Sustain: Sustainable food
An alliance of organisations and communities working together for a better system of food, farming and fishing, and cultivating the movement for change.
Sustainable Web - Sustainable Food
BBC Bitesize: Food security - a global concern
The BBC's educational website, with reference to increasing food sustainability.
BBC Bitesize - Increasing Food Sustainability
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