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Ensuring nutritious and affordable food for all

Our strategic aspirations

The Birmingham Food System Strategy has committed an entire workstream objective to food security and resilience, as well as embedding food justice through all of the workstreams. We have set key aspirations, that will shape the Food System Strategy Action Plan over the next eight years.

Talk about food poverty

  • Through our citywide partnership we will build a big citywide conversation to shine a light on the reality of food poverty and try to reduce the stigma and isolation created by being unable to feed yourself or your family.

Mitigate food poverty

  • Use evidence-based approaches to increase awareness and uptake of initiatives across the city, for example Healthy Start vouchers, networks such as Food Justice Network and Growing Network, and community initiatives.
  • Support knowledge, skills and access to initiatives that enable individuals to eat healthy and delicious diets on a low income.
  • Identify what drives unaffordable food across the city and develop evidence-based solutions to bring about change that will create more affordable food businesses, and increase healthy affordable options on offer to citizens.

Reduce food poverty

  • Continue to work towards truly being a Living Wage City and influence, on a national level, the welfare and employment practices that lead to food poverty.

Be a food resilient city

  • Use our global city position to collaborate and influence regional, national and international policy to increase the food security of cities, which are uniquely vulnerable to disruption to the global food supply chain.
  • Follow the 3R’s framework on resilience building proposed by the Food System Transformation Group at the University of Oxford in 2022. This includes introducing actions that ensure robustness in our city’s food system, so it is able to resist disruption, recovery by mobilising action when required, and re-orientation by restructuring supply chains and policies.

Read more about our food security and resilience workstream objective and the wider Birmingham Food System Strategy.

Page last updated: 29 August 2023

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