Launch of Government Food 2030 Strategy

Yesterday the Government launched its Food 2030 Strategy at the Oxford Farming Conference - the first major food strategy in over 50 years. Commentary from the food and farming sector seems to be fairly thin on the ground - maybe it's the new year freeze. However, Peter Couchman, Chief Executive of the Plunkett Foundation which leads the Making Local Food Work programme, is quoted today as saying: “While we welcome this as the first major food report in sixty years, we feel that the vision set out in the report does not reflect the change in the relationships that consumers increasingly want to have with the food they eat and who produces it.” Read Plunkett's full take on the strategy here. As one of the partner organisations in Making Local Food Work we've seen the huge appetite for community-led food production that Peter is advocating. Interesting article in the Guardian this Monday about the strategy, including some fairly scathing criticism from Sustain.