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Mills speaks about Women's Organic Community Allotment Sheffield
at the Taste of a Better Future Get Together, October
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WEN’s
food project is part of WEN’s wider campaigning agenda,
which works to educate, inform and empower women and men who care about
the environment. The food project seeks to affect national food
policy making by bringing experiences from women’s growing
groups in Tower Hamlets and lessons from network groups across
the country. This experience informs our work with the national
media and the national policy agenda and helps us to act as an
advocate for the groups we work with and to respond to government
consultations and policy.
We
are involved in several national partnerships including SPAN.
We are members of Community
Composting Network (CCN). CCN provides advice and support
to community composting projects across the UK.
We
are also members of:
- SUSTAIN - The Alliance of Better Food and Farming, with specific involvement in
a) Food Poverty Network- campaigning to tackle the underlying
causes of food poverty and
b) London Food Link - individuals and organisations with an interest
in food and food issues in London.
- Black Environment Network working across diverse sectors
to promote ethnic participation.
- Anti GMO networks.
- Sustainable Communities and Food Consortium.
- Stiftung Interkultur An organisation based in Germany networking
multi cultural gardens around Europe.
For
more information on partners and organisations we work alongside
with go to contacts page.
Supermarkets
WEN is concerned that the behaviour
of the biggest supermarkets is bad for women, who make up the majority of
their low paid workforce both in the UK and abroad, and for the environment.
We welcome the Competition Commission's final report which addresses
planning policy, and a Code of Practice and ombudsman for supermarkets, but
feel that their proposals don't go far enough.
Early Day Motion 1371 specifically raises concerns about supermarket
expansion at the expense of local independent retailers, our town centres,
and consumers, particularly those who cannot, or chose not to, make use of a
car, and calls on the government to take action to encourage a better mix of
food retailing, with benefits for local economies and the environment.
Read the motion here. If your MP hasn't signed it yet you can write to them (House of
Commons, London, SW1A 0AA) explaining why the issues are
important and asking them to sign.
WEN
is a supporter of the Tescopoly alliance.
If there are other issues you would like to see us work on, please let us know food@wen.org.uk. Note that we may not be able to work on all areas
suggested due to funding constraints.
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