London needs more locally grown food
Locally grown food has a lower climate impact than imported food but provides less than one per cent of the capital’s food supply. What work is the Mayor doing to increase local food growing in London?1
A 2022 report by Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute (ECI) for the Greater London Authority (GLA) found that local food growing projects “increase food resilience but also educate participants on nutrition, can improve mental and physical health and access to productive green spaces”.2
Tomorrow, the London Assembly Environment Committee will meet to examine the Mayor’s policies and funding opportunities aimed at increasing community food growing.
The guests are:
Panel 1 – (10am – 11.25am):
- Professor Andre Viljoen, Professor of Architecture, University of Brighton
- Sarah Williams, Director of Programmes, Capital Growth Network
- Ruth Arnott, Community Gardening coordinator, Southwark Council
- Sandra Salazar, Go Grow with Love CIC, ‘Rootz into food growing’ project
- Pauline Shakespeare, Rootz into food growing’ project
Panel 2 – (11.30am - 12pm)
- Jeremy Skinner, Assistant Director of Strategy, Insight and Intelligence, GLA
- Anna Kaskanlian, Senior Strategic Planner, GLA London Plan team, GLA
The meeting will take place on Wednesday 16 October 2024 from 10am in Committee Rooms 2 & 3 at City Hall, Kamal Chunchie Way, E16 1ZE.
Media and members of the public are invited to attend.
The meeting can also be viewed LIVE or later via webcast or YouTube.
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Notes to editors
- ReLondon, Londons_food_footprint November 2021
- Food Systems Transformation Group, Enhancing the Resilience of London’s Food Systems, February 2022
- Zack Polanski AM, Chair of the Environment Committee, is available for interview.
- Find out more about the work of the Environment Committee.
- Read the agenda in full.
- As well as investigating issues that matter to Londoners, the London Assembly acts as a check and a balance on the Mayor.