Sustainable Farming

EDM number 194 in 2008-09, proposed by Lindsay Hoyle on 09/12/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Agriculture and environment and Food.

That this House calls on the Government to adopt policies on the procurement and purchasing of food supplied by farmers to 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This motion has been signed by a total of 38 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.