Support For Sustainable Farming

EDM number 2042 in 2007-08, proposed by Lindsay Hoyle on 15/07/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Agriculture, Agriculture and environment, Farmers and Food.

That this House calls for procurement policies on the purchasing of food supplied by farmers to supply the supermarkets and shops in their local area; recognises the quality of locally-grown and reared produce; further calls for efforts to ensure less environmental damage by reducing the number of food miles; further calls for the creation of sustainable communities by bringing together farmers and buyers; and further calls for the establishment of local farm co-operatives to help build relationships between food outlets and their neighbourhood farmers.

This motion has been signed by a total of 46 MPs.