The VS6 Partnership are pleased to publish their latest report developed in collaboration with the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and the LCR VCFSE sector: “Sustainable and Affordable Food for Liverpool City Region: Recommendations for Change”.
It is widely acknowledged that there are significant proportions of communities and families within the Liverpool City Region (LCR) that have or are currently experiencing food insecurity. Even before 2022’s cost of living crisis, which has compounded existing challenges and barriers, our residents and communities have struggled to access and afford healthy and nutritious food in sustainable ways.
They are therefore seeking to build a Liverpool City Region where everybody has access to affordable, sustainable, and healthy food, where no one goes hungry with our communities resilient to future crises. The latest report outlines the trajectory to achieving this.
The 2020 Sustainable and Affordable Food report contained six key strategic visions marking the beginning of a roadmap towards developing a food strategy for the City Region. Building upon this previous work, this latest report contains 11 key recommendations to developing the Combined Authority Sustainable and Affordable Food Strategy for LCR, with actions to address and eliminate food insecurity in the short and long term in collaboration with all sectors.
These recommendations build upon the strategic visions in the previous food report, but also following a community food mapping exercise and a further VS6 Sustainable and Affordable Food assembly event held with the VCFSE sector. The community food mapping highlights where community food organisations exist across LCR including food banks, food pantries and community growers and is a key tool to understanding the community food economy. The report details the findings of this mapping exercise.
The full report can be found in the attachment below and more information can be found through accessing the website: