1. Fair share of the pie
Kath Dalmeny Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming Food, Farming & Countryside Commission Growing Communities and Better Food Traders

2. Food and farming: Signs of our times
Farmers’ average income £20k; many going out of business; land ownership concentrating
8.4m experiencing household food insecurity
Concentration of power in decreasing number of food companies
We’re hitting ecological limits – pollinators, antibiotics, climate
(Oh, and then there’s Brexit…)

5. Food: A fundamental need

6. Food strategies at different scales
National
London
Local authority
Local community

7. What food strategies say (and miss out)
Tend to focus on:
Decent food for everyone
Skills, jobs, enterprise
Land use
Environment: Climate change, food waste
Public sector food procurement
Rarely take an assets-based approach
Haven’t cracked the economics
Have started to look at fiscal measures
Fundamental questions about redistribution of public money according to need

8. What money are we missing?

10. Follow the money…

13. Decent food is possible
People eating food from box scheme or farmers’ market each week: 5,000
Percentage of box scheme veg UK-grown: 85% (UK average is 55%)
Percentage of box scheme fruit UK-grown: 29.4% (UK average is 10%)
Box Scheme and Farmers’ Market customers walking, cycling or taking public transport to collect: 93%
Graduate apprentices now working as patchwork farmers: 15
Farmers’ Market/Box Scheme customers considering themselves to be on a low income: 25%
Members who have changed their shopping or cooking habits since joining: 95%

14. Root causes of disease: investment
For every £100 invested in fruit and vegetable production, over £1,000 is being invested in soft drinks and confectionery.
The Food Commission

15. Growing Communities Food Zones

16. Power and money in the food supply chain

17. Common agriculture policy (CAP) budget
Root causes of disease: Subsidy
Common agriculture policy (CAP) budget
Dietary targets

18. Root causes of disease: agricultural production policy
“Chronic over-production”
of sugar, butter Court of Auditors
Cheapest calories from oils, sugars, starches
1p for 150 kcal
55p for 150 kcal

19. The power of policy…
…after standards
before standards…