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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 Friday Food Market

Lewes Farmers Market

Carefully sourced local produce supporting the rural economy.

Lewes Farmers Market

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) [212KB]

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.

UN News

Love Food Hate Waste

Tips and advice to eliminate household food waste.

Love Food Hate Waste

Diet and climate change

WWF - What we eat matters to our own health and to our Planet's health 

Plant based diets

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.

National Trust - Food

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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