The Food4Fife project is about people in Fife (individuals, communities, and businesses) coming together to work across all aspects of the food system to help solve some of today’s health, environmental and economic challenges.
The aim of the project is to work together to help change and adapt Fife’s food culture, so that the food we produce and consume, becomes more local and environmentally friendly
The Food4Fife project started in January 2021 .
Phase one – Brought together experienced people from all areas of the food system to form a partnership and create a food vision. We held a food vision workshop in June and launched the Food4Fife partnership in August 2021
Phase two – Creation of a food strategy and action plan started in January 2022 . The Food 4Fife strategy was passed by Full cabinet May 9th 2024. The frame work for our food system is based on Sustainable food places 6 pillars.
Our chair is Jo-Anne Valentine from the NHS. Other members include representation from community groups, St Andrews University, Fife college Fife council and NHS procurement teams, local farmers, local food business, FIfe council Economic Development and Climate,staff, Fifes Food Insecurity group and NHS.
Fork to farm dialogues started in August 2021. It’s been a great way to work with our farmers and the NFU to create a platform for ideas and discussion. We are developing the clusters of farmers across the region .
We have a strong Fife wide public procurement group supporting the increase of procurement of local food.
We have a strong network of 60 Community groups delivering change on the ground through the Climate hub , the FCCAN network , the CAF project and Greener Kirkcaldy
The SW Fife Love food hate waste project worked with pantries and food banks to map access to food in local rural communities and build capacity around food, cooking, budgeting, food waste, recycling, and sustainable food. Outcomes included a recipe book 2 training kitchens and a strong SW network.
A research project around food waste behaviour in the home was undertaken with Zero Waste Scotland and Fife Councils research team.
We have a comms team and Food4Fife website and are linked in with Fife Councils Climate comms programme.
We are currently developing a 4 stage information and modelling project to understand gaps and opportunties for local food infrastructure to enable access to food for all and the growth of local food markets
We are in the process of setting up with NHS FIfe a health impact assessment of the Food4Fife strategy
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