CARDIFF
A SUSTAINABLE FOOD CITY
A Conference for Reflectin & Action
and to Launch the Cardiff Food Charter
Date: 3rd April -
9.30am – 4.00pm
Location: Cardiff University
What would it look like? – and do you want to be a part of creating it?
YOU ARE WARMLY INVITED TO ATTEND - PLEASE FORWARD ON TO ANYONE ELSE WHO MIGHT BE (FULL AGENDA TO FOLLOW SHORTLY!)
Aim:
To discuss and endorse/adopt a Cardiff Food Charter, and agree on a vision for Cardiff as a Sustainable Food City.
Objective:
To agree on practical steps which would realise the ambitions of the Cardiff Food Charter. To enable people from a wide range of food-linked sectors (voluntary groups; retailers; students; academics; activists; policy makers; support agencies etc.) to hear each others’ views and agree the contribution they can make, individually and collectively, towards creating a Sustainable Food City
Background:
As a local food activist, policy maker, project manager, or researcher you may have attended the launch of the Cardiff Sustainable Food City consultation and information sharing event held earlier this year at Cardiff University. At that cross-sectoral gathering a number of suggestions and ideas were discussed, one of which was the development of a Cardiff Food Charter (draft attached) and the development of Cardiff as a Sustainable Food City (following in the footsteps of Plymouth, Bristol and others)
What’s a Food Charter?
The Cardiff Food Charter will provide a framework for creating a sustainable food system in Cardiff. The Charter will enable local food activists, third sector action groups, academics, food businesses and government representatives to hear about what each other are doing and, most importantly, to identify how they can work together to secure access to healthy food for all residents while promoting environmental sustainability and helping build a resilient local economy.
FULL PROGRAMME TO FOLLOW. I DO KNOW THERE WILL SOME FASCINATING SPEAKERS, PLENTY OF TIME FOR TALKING, A CLOSING PLAN OF ACTION , AND A FABULOUS LOCAL FOOD BUFFET! PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP IF YOU’D LIKE TO BE THERE.
N.B. THERE WILL ALSO BE AN AREA FOR ORGANISATIONS TO PUT UP INFORMATION STALLS – WOULD YOU LIKE A SPACE?
OR DO YOU KNOW ANYONE WHO WOULD? – PLEASE FORWARD TO THEM.
The development of the Cardiff Food Charter and the Sustainable Food City Cardiff conference is part of Sustainable Food Communities Wales (SFC ), a two-year Soil Association/Organic Centre Wales initiative currently taking place across Wales.
The SFC conference is hosted by the Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University
Contact:
Steve Garrett
Sustainable Food Communities Wales
c/o RCMA Social Enterprise Ltd
(Riverside Community Market Assoc.)
46 Ninian Park Road
Cardiff CF11 6JA
Telephone: 029 2019 0036
Mobile: 0781 4770 450
E-mail: rcma@riversidemarket.org.uk
