Granite City Good Food

Food plays an important role in our lives for so many different reasons. From our mental and physical health, to how it brings us together, how it can support local communities and economies, and the place it has in tackling our climate and nature emergency.

Simply, It sits at the heart of some of Aberdeen City's social, cultural, and economic issues. It’s one of the most important tools we have in creating solutions for them.

Granite City Good Food is Aberdeen City’s food partnership – hosted by CFINE and funded by Aberdeen City Council and NHS Grampian. We take a ‘whole systems approach to Sustainable Food’, which consists of working on six priority areas:

1. Taking a strategic and collaborative approach to good food governance and action,
2. Building public awareness, active food citizenship and a local good food movement,
3. Tackling food poverty, diet-related ill-health, and increase access to affordable healthy food,
4. Creating a vibrant, prosperous, and diverse sustainable food economy,
5. Transform catering and procurement and revitalise local and sustainable food supply chains,
6. Tackle the climate and nature emergency through sustainable food and farming and put an end to food waste.

One of c.120 partnerships in a national network stretching across the UK, and progress and achievement across the network is recognised by a prestigious set of place-based awards. Aberdeen was recently announced as the first city in Scotland to be awarded the Sustainable Food Places Gold Award, the highest level of recognition!

So, what does Granite City Good Food do?

• At strategic level, Granite City Good Food brings organisations and groups together who are committed and acting on the priority areas to create and support activity in this area.
• For communities, groups, and individuals, Granite City Good Food helps raise awareness and increase public and community engagement in sustainable food activity. This could include partnering with specific organisations on individual topics, creating networks and spaces for people to share, attending events, and running specific events for your group, tailored to your audience.

To find out more about Granite City Good Food, visit: www.granitecitygoodfood.org

For more information on Granite City Good Food, please contact us:

Email: MCarle@cfine.org

Facebook: @granitecitygf

Instagram: @granite_city_good_food

Twitter: @GC_GoodFood

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