Gloucestershire Food and Farming Partnership

What we do

GFFP has been working in collaboration since 2020 with our Partners to provide insight into, and action to transform, the County’s food system.  Below is an overview of the work

• Creating a Vision and co-designing an Action Plan with our wider cross sector partners, to help the county become a more sustainable food place.

• Creating a county-wide campaign - GREAT Food Gloucestershire - to inspire a Good Food Movement. 

• Continuous Research into Gloucestershire's Food Economy and Community Food Provision, including a Farm Produce Survey, Community Food Survey, and Community Food Organisations Conversations.

• Exploring Gloucestershire's Food Resilience by Mapping the Community Food Providers and Community Growing Projects across each of our 6 districts against the Food Ladder.

• Convening, leading, coordinating, and supporting a wide range of projects

  • Feeding Gloucestershire - supporting our partner's work in tackling food insecurity across the county.

  • Gloucestershire Regenerative Environment and Agriculture Transition (GREAT) project - helping to raise awareness of regenerative agriculture.

  • Made in Gloucestershire - a local and independent digital food directory.

  • Skills and Advice - through GFFPs engagement and representation with the Agri-food and Rural Business Group, and work to raise awareness of the climate and nature emergencies with Gloucestershire's farm advisers and rural facilitators.

  • Communication activities - creating GREAT Food Gloucestershire as a platform to enable Gloucestershire's active food citizens to more easily participate in our work and Applying for SFP Bronze Award.

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Areas of expertise

GFFP works collaboratively with a wide range of cross sector partners from across the Gloucestershire Food and Farming system. Key partners include Gloucestershire County Council, Feeding Gloucestershire, FWAG SW (Farming Wildlife Advisory Group South West), Visit Gloucestershire and GRCC (Gloucestershire Rural Community Council. Together we convene the wider partnership to help articulate a Vision of Sustainabile Food across the county and co-design an Action Plan to achieve it.

www.gloucestershirefoodandfarmingpartnership.org

Through our partnership with Feeding Gloucestershire (part of the Feeding Britain Network) we are working on projects tackling Food Poverty and Hunger in our communities - currently working on projects such as increasing uptake to Healthy Start, Gleaning Networks and Community Growing.

Through our partnership with FWAG SW we are working on projects promoting Agroecology and Nature Friendly Farming - currently working on projects such as Regenerative Agriculture, Zerodig, and Farmer Clusters.

Through our partnership with Visit Gloucestershire we are working on projects promoting local, sustainable and independent Food & Drink - currently working on projects such as Sustainable Food and Drink Trails and spotlighting innovation in 'Carbon Free' menus.

Through our partnership with GRCC we are working on projects exploring food issues in our communities and parishes - currently working on a Climate Resilience Event.