Local Food Mapping Project
Publication date: 11-08-2009
The Mapping Local Food Webs project aims to give people the materials and support they need to 'map' - research and record - their local food networks or webs in their towns and cities across England. The findings should increase understanding of the links between producers and consumers, and the impact those links have on people in urban and rural areas.
This project has just started in Faversham - one of up to 24 communities in England where the mapping activity will occur during 2009. It is already supported by Transition Town Faversham and local producers in the area. We need volunteers with a passion and interest in local food to form a local research team to organise and carry out various pieces of research from now until the end of summer 2009.
Activities will include interviewing shoppers, food outlets and producers on their views of local food, and organising a workshop for the local community to explore the social, environmental and economic impacts of local food. The research will also identify barriers to local food in terms of affordability, accessibility and availability. The work is flexible in terms of days and hours.
For more information visit Making Local Food Work