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Sustainable Food - Coggle Diagram
Sustainable Food
FOOD JUSTICE & FOOD ACCESS
Access to affordable and healthy food
Third sector/charity partnership
Food banks and food hubs
Hope CIC mobile food hub - servicing Duxford, Fulbourn, Linton, Orchard Park, Northstowe, Papworth
Multiple community or church-run food hubs / food banks in South Cambs
https://www.scambs.gov.uk/cost-of-living/foodbanks-and-food-hubs
social supermarkets
Hope CIC Community Food Project - Community Shop in Cambourne - Mon, Wed, Fri
Right to Food City
Sustainable Food Place
5.2 Explore opportunities for developing a Sustainable Food Network, including becoming a Sustainable Food Place
Opportunities
FARMING AND FOOD PRODUCTION
regenerative demonstration farms
RSPB Hope Farm
Sharedelowes Farm - river sensitive site, part of Greater Cambridge Chalk Stream Project
Farming clusters with nature-enhancement aims
Hen & Abbotsley Brook Catchment Group - woodland/scrub creation and restoration, grass and flower margin managment, orchards, veteran trees, bird habitat
West Cambs 100s/Bourn Brook - species rich grasslands, lowland meadows, floodplain grazing marsh, bird conservation, pollinators, hedgerows connecting ancient woodlands, trees, ponds.
East Camridge Farmers - improve water, air quality, soil health, a Nature Network, protect chalk grasslands, riparian habitats, protect species, restore and maintain SSSIs, farm habitat creation
farmer networks
SCDC has links with East Cambs Farmers Cluster, Wildlife Trust, RSPB, and previous links with NFU
farming technology and innovation
5.4 Support and engage farmers and agricultural businesses to become more economically and environmentally sustainable, including identifying opportunities to work together
East Cambridge Farmers engaging with research science and tech to assist farming
local food processing
Farms (conventional and regenerative)
Ec Dev &C+E to investigate which / how many farms in SCambs is implementing sustainable methods or funded by DEFRA programmes to transition
Opportunities
FOOD LITERACY
Cooking skills
CCC Adult learning programme - Ready Steady Slow Cook
Healthy eating
Healthy You - nutrition education in schools and communities
Food waste reduction
ZCC Funded Let's Cook CIC food waste education and cooking skills
5.5 Run annual communication campaigns to encourage carbon-friendly diets and food waste reduction aligning with national schemes
6.1 Deliver separate weekly food waste collections from April 2026
Food education
Whole School Food - schools sign up to healthy eating learning and growing schemes.
Opportunities
FOOD WASTE MANAGEMENT
food waste collection
Ec Dev and GCSWS engaging businesses to increase food collection service uptake
GCSWS household food waste collection starting in April 2026
food redistribution/reuse
Hope CIC collecting and purchasing from select supermarkets to redistribute through mobile food hub and Cambourne community shop
supplier policies
Climate and sustainability incorporated into SCDC tender criteria
home composting
Opportunities
FOOD ECONOMY
Shops, wholesale, market
Ec Dev encouraging more market stalls with local produce, incorporating skills development - SCambs currently fewer diversified farms, mostly arable
5.3 Work with local voluntary and community groups and other partners to promote sustainable food practices to local businesses
Restaurants and catering - Ec Dev mapping which businesses have food waste collection and where the food 'waste' can be reused/redistributed?
Farm gates
Ex. Frank's farm farm shop - diversified food business with a community kitchen
supply chain and logistics
Opportunities
HOUSEHOLD FOOD
Allotments
5.1 Use guidance in the Sustainable Design and Construction Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) to encourage developers to incorporate food growing in new housing and non-residential development (e.g. providing fruit trees, roof top gardens and growing space as part of landscape design)
5.6 Build on the publication of the allotment toolkit to support parish and town councils, groups, and societies to increase the number of people who can easily use them
5.7
Promote the expansion of food growing initiatives through providing grant funding
Home gardens
ZCC funded Climate Change Gardening which promotes climate-friendly gardening methods at household level
Opportunities