Governance & Strategy
A vital aspect of our vision will be to ensure that FFA is committed to a people-centred approach, and we will continue to develop inclusive, transparent, and accountable relationships with all our stakeholders. We see this plan as an opportunity to bring together people and organisations from different sectors with a common interest in a collaborative way. By hosting consultations, workshops and surveys, we will ensure that marginalised voices and those with direct experience will have the opportunity not only to inform our actions but to participate in the development of the partnership and its agenda.
Food Security
The evidence has long been clear that food insecurity is driven primarily by lack of income. Low pay, insecure work, and inadequate and unreliable social security provision mean that people are unable to buy nutritious, healthy food, if they can afford any at all. Tackling food-related inequalities is one of today’s most urgent challenges if we are to stem the rising tide of hunger, obesity and diet-related ill-health. A range of different approaches is required to fully address healthy weight both supporting individual and wider environmental change. A collaborative partnership approach is required to deliver healthy, affordable food; regardless of where people live or how much they earn.
Food Culture
We want to inspire people and institutions through various events so a greater connection and relationship to our food can be developed. By engaging with the people on multiple platforms, we want to share the benefits of cooking, growing and sharing food. Through various activities, food can help to reduce social isolation, improve physical and mental wellbeing, provide skills and confidence and bring communities together.
Food for the Planet
How food is produced, processed, packaged and transported is vital in managing the ecological footprint of our food system. With an unprecedented rate of biodiversity loss, greenhouse gas emissions, depletion of natural resources, rising poverty, hunger and inequality, food production has been at the forefront of discussion in recent years, with an international consensus that anthropogenic activities are contributing to climate change. Almost a third of what we produce globally goes to waste, having an enormous impact on the planet and its resources.
Food Economy
To make good food a defining characteristic of where you live depends, ultimately, on ensuring healthy and sustainable food businesses - from producers and processors to retailers and caterers - are mainstreamed as part of a revitalised local food economy. Putting good food entrepreneurs and enterprises at the heart of local economic development and promoting them to consumers not only ensures that buying healthy and sustainable food becomes the easy choice but also creates jobs, businesses and prosperity while regenerating high streets and city centres.
Catering & Procurement
To create a large-scale demand for healthy, sustainable, and local food, procurement can play a powerful tool in helping to reach large numbers of people. From schools, colleges, hospitals and caterers, procurement can not only help change our eating habits but is an important step to improving our system. We aim to build community wealth by helping to develop cooperatives and ensure that community’s benefit from public contracts to help alleviate social, environmental and economic challenges.
