Dumfries and Galloway Sustainable Food Partnership is working together for a fair, healthy and sustainable food system.
The D&G Sustainable Food Partnership brings together stakeholders and partners from across the entire region, covering Stranraer to Langholm, Sanquhar to Whithorn.
Members of the SFP represent different sectors across the food system. By working collaboratively we will bring a joined up approach to food policy, ensuring that everyone has equal access to affordable and healthy food that is good for the environment, and good for the people who produce, cook and serve it.
In 2023 D&G Sustainable Food Partnership achieved the Silver Sustainable Food Places Award.
We formed in 2020 as a working group, bringing together representative voices from across sectors. Where those voices didn't exist, we have sought to empower and facilitate them - for example we have supported the formation of the D&G Community Food Network, and the South West Scotland Regenerative Farming Network.
Some of our successes have been:
We're proud of what we've achieved in a short space of time!