Summary
The Glasgow City Food Plan is a long-term action plan developed by a number of organisations across the city, intended to deliver a fair and environmentally sustainable food system which makes healthy food accessible to all Glasgow citizens.
The Glasgow City Food Plan Annual Report 2021-22 is now available on the resources section of this website.
Making A Difference
The GCFP is a long-term action plan. Annual public progress reports will be produced, and Glasgow City Council has signed up to the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, which involves reporting on 44 indicators covering areas such as social and economic equity, food waste, food production etc.
We want Glasgow to be a city where tasty, healthy, affordable food is accessible to everyone. Where local food enterprises are supported and celebrated. Where we produce, provide, purchase and consume food that is good for the planet, good for animal welfare, and for good for those involved in growing, making and selling it. In doing this, we will work towards an inclusive, sustainable, resilient and fair economy for our whole community.
To further this end, we have created the Glasgow City Food Plan.
The plan was launched in June 2021 and runs through to 2031. It has 6 themes, 9 long-term outcomes and 76 actions.
The 6 themes are:
- Food Poverty- Fair Food For All
- Community Food
- Food Procurement and Catering
- Food Economy
- Food and the Environment
- Children and Young People
You can view the full plan, along with detail on the outcomes, actions, performance indicators etc. on the GCPH website here.
The Glasgow City Food Plan is intended to benefit everyone living and working in Glasgow; it proposes a vision of creating a better food future for Glasgow and proposes how we can get there by working better together. We hope the Glasgow City Food Plan will be helpful to those living, working or growing, producing or selling food in Glasgow, be that in the public sector, in business, or in the community. Together we can create a better, fairer, healthier, more resilient and more sustainable food system.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of resilient food systems and made people more aware of the links between food, health, poverty, consumption, supply chains and purchasing patterns. Challenges to our food system affect everyone but food can also bring communities together in inspiring ways. This Plan will therefore also make an important contribution to Glasgow’s recovery from COVID-19.
The plan will also contribute to the achievement of the following national targets:
- Reducing child poverty (Child Poverty Act 2017)
- Zero hunger by 2030 (Sustainable Development Goals)
- Reducing food waste by 33% by 2025 and halving food waste by 2030 (Scottish Government Circular Economy Strategy)
- Net zero emissions in Scotland by 2045
- Halving childhood obesity by 2030 (Scotland’s Diet and Healthy Weight Delivery Plan)
Over the last 2 years, the food plan team has worked together with over 80 stakeholders to develop actions for the plan which went out to a public consultation from October to December 2020. Responses from individuals and organisations have been taken into account in the final plan. You can read the Consultation Summary here.
The plan has been developed by a team comprising Glasgow Food Policy Partnership, Glasgow Centre for Population Health, Glasgow City Council, Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Glasgow Community Food Network.
More information, along with further films like the one above, are available on the Glasgow City Food Plan section of the Good Food For All website.
