Food Ladders: An Introduction and Toolkit

FIND THE Food Ladder’s toolkit HERE

N.B. please feel free to use any of these resources in your work, just please credit Dr Megan Blake and the Food Ladders Team.

FOOD LADDERS ANIMATION:

Food Ladders are a way of seeing and developing community food provision.  Establishing Food Ladders in communities means working to ensure the ladders are complete and available to everyone in the place where they live. 

WEBINAR RECORDING: 

WEBINAR SLIDES: 

The Bread and Butter Thing Presentation - Mark Game

Food Ladders and Intro and Toolkit guide Presentation - Dr Megan Blake

People in wealthy and poor countries struggle to have the food they need to live their best lives. The reasons for this are complicated. There is a mix of individual, group, community, and national factors. The food ladders is a framework that aims to help communities, service providers, local government, and others develop an understanding and a pathway toward a food system that meets community members' needs and desires, not just now but in the longer term.

We can't expect communities that are already struggling to be able to do this on their own, but we also cannot do it without them. This toolkit aims to support those who can help to be able to do so. This toolkit is primarily aimed at those in local government and local food networks. There will be elements that community organisations may also find helpful. It is not a toolkit aimed directly at those who are struggling.

The toolkit includes tools to support the implementation in your local areas.  The toolkit includes resources to help you collectively frame the process, understand what is already available in places, build partnerships, think about your shared vision, create a plan for going forward, and then begin the construction process.  There are also tools that give insights from others who are or have been working on creating local ladders in the communities within their localities. 

In the webinar, Dr. Megan Blake, the creator of the Food Ladders, will talk about how the toolkit came about and the different steps involved in implementation.  You will also hear from others who are using the framework in their local areas, and you will have an opportunity to ask questions.