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Down Your Way

A CPRE briefing on supermarkets and local food

A survey of ten UK supermarkets looking at their local food sourcing policies. The briefing outlines CPRE’s challenge to supermarkets to increase their sourcing of local foods and to set out clear definitions of what they mean by local foods.
  • Leaflet
  • A4, 8pp
  • May 2002
  • Free with A4 SAE
  • PDF (200Kb)
Food Webs
A report for CPRE by Caroline Cranbrook on local food networks in East Suffolk, which demonstrates the importance of local shops and services to rural communities. It reveals the complex web of interconnection between local producers and farmers and local shops.
  • Report
  • A4, 12pp
  • May 2002
  • ISBN: 0 946044 87 2
  • Free with A4 SAE
  • PDF (589Kb)
Local Action for Local Foods
A campaigners guide to promoting local foods including influencing key players such as local retailers, supermarkets and restaurants; the processes involved; sources of information and how to tailor a local action plan. This guide is best used in conjunction with Sustainable Local Foods.
  • Campaign briefing
  • A4, 16pp
  • May 2002
  • ISBN: 1 902786 57 2
  • PDF (524Kb)
Mapping Local Food Webs

Methodology and survey

Our campaign briefing shows how to use CPRE’s Food Webs survey as an effective campaigning tool, to map the links map the links in local food production, from producer to processor to retailer to community. The results can be used, for example, to oppose inappropriate development by showing its likely impact on the community and local economy.
  • Campaign briefing
  • A4, 12pp
  • May 2002
  • ISBN: 1 902786 56 4
  • £3.50
  • PDF (522Kb)
Sustainable Local Foods
Our campaign briefing aims to reconnect consumers with farmers and producers. It helps to empower the public to make informed choices about the food they eat and the way it is produced and distributed; to gain recognition of the benefits of a local food economy and encourage more support for local food initiatives.
  • Campaign briefing
  • 242mm x 167mm, 24pp
  • September 2001
  • ISBN: 1 902786 42 4
  • £3.50
Cover: Sustainable Local Foods
The Real Choice

How local foods can survive the supermarket onslaught

Our report shows how local foods – grown, processed and consumed in the same district – can flourish, provided the growth of supermarket chains is restrained by sound planning policies. These 'local food webs' bring a range of social, environmental and economic benefits and help to conserve some of our most beautiful countryside.
  • Report
  • A4, 24pp
  • June 2006
  • ISBN 1 902786 84X
  • PDF (1.3Mb)
Cover: The Real Choice

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