Liverpool Residents invited to join the Good Food Movement

Liverpool’s Food Insecurity Task Force today unveils Liverpool’s Good Food Plan, a strategy to create a city “where everyone can eat good food” and that will address key issues related to the food we eat in Liverpool.

Phase I of the Good Food Plan is about tackling the immediate and urgent challenges that the City is facing while building a framework and foundation to create real systemic change in the medium and long term.

32% of adults in Liverpool are food insecure, Liverpool is home to 3 of the 10 most economically deprived food deserts in England, only 12% of kids aged 11 to 18 eat their five-a-day (NDNS 2021) and a survey of the menus of 26% of nurseries in Liverpool found them all to be deficient in energy, carbohydrates, iron, and zinc.

Meanwhile, an estimated 140,000 tonnes of food is wasted in Liverpool City each year, producing approximately 368,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year, the equivalent of the CO2 produced by 80,033 cars in one year.

The Plan, to be launched today, addresses key issues including acute hunger; chronic food insecurity; access to and take-up of healthy, nutritious food; and the sustainability of food supply in Liverpool.

Rev Canon Dr Ellen Loudon, Director of Social Justice & Canon Chancellor, Diocese of Liverpool and Independent VS6 Partnership Chair, said:

“Liverpool’s Good Food Plan is a fantastic vision to create a city where everyone has access to sustainable and affordable food. It is a great example of how people and organisations can come together to develop solutions for food insecurity, particularly our VCFSE organisations that have been working extremely hard to support people throughout the pandemic.

 The ambitions within the plan will likely have impacts throughout the Liverpool City Region and complement the great work already happening locally within our other boroughs.

The plan also aligns closely with VS6’s Sustainable and Affordable Food Assembly recommendations to address food insecurity across the City Region, and we are pleased that the Good Food Plan for Liverpool is emerging at such a significant time.”

The plan can be viewed here www.feedingliverpool.org/goodfoodplan

Please do invite colleagues and friends to join the Good Food Plan movement by signing up for regular updates here.