D&G Good Food
The Dumfries and Galloway Sustainable Food Partnership is bringing together organisations from across sectors: Public sector such as the Local Authority and NHS, representatives from food business networks, farmers, community and voluntary sector and education.
We aim to work together for a fairer, healthier, and more resilient food system.
Propagate Coordinates and provides Secretariat for the D&G Sustainable Food Partnership.
Part of the UK wide Sustainable Food Places family.
We have a monthly newsletter, DG Good Food News; and a a strong social media following on facebook, D&G Good Food.
Partnership Themes:
- Healthy Food for All Tackling food poverty, diet related ill-health and access to affordable healthy food.
- Good Food Movement Building public awareness, active food citizenship and a local good food movement.
- Sustainable Food Economy Creating a vibrant, prosperous and diverse sustainable food economy.
- Food Governance and Strategy Taking a strategic and collaborative approach to good food governance and action.
- Food for the Planet Tackling the climate and nature emergency through sustainable food and farming and an end to food waste.
- Catering and Procurement Transforming catering and procurement and revitalizing local and sustainable food supply chains.
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Growing the Local Food Economy
We have been working collaboratively with partners on an ambitious project to grow, support and develop the regional local food economy across the South of Scotland.
Funded by South of Scotland Enterprise, we have supported a landscape assessment of the food and drink industry, and a raft of scoping studies to support small producers in local supply chains. The studies we have contributed to this work are:
- Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Production in Dumfries and Galloway
- On-farm Organic Butchery Feasibility Study
- Increasing the resilience of the Galloway Food Hub
The
South of Scotland Local Food Growth Plan draws together work by key stakeholders over several years from across both regions, to support local producers, businesses and supply chains.
The Plan offers a raft of key actions across
local production, infrastructure, marketing, collaboration and policy. The Plan is a call to action to those working in the food and drink sector to work together to enable a resilient local food economy.
The Local Food Growth Plan was led by Propagate, with support from Abundant Borders and JR Consulting. It was funded by Sustain and the Rothschild Foundation as part of the National Local Food Plan.
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