Healthy, sustainable and fair food for all
Launched in 2006, refreshed in 2012, 2018 and 2025, the Brighton and Hove Food Strategy Action Plan sets out how collectively as a city we will achieve a vision of a healthy, sustainable and fair food system for Brighton and Hove.
An ambitious plan for a gold sustainable food city
Brighton and Hove has pioneered place-based food work, adopting a partnership approach to food in 2003. Part of the wider Sustainable Food Places movement, we were the first place to achieve Silver Sustainable Food City status in 2015 and the first to achieve Gold in 2020.
The process of refreshing the city’s food strategy action plan was led by Brighton and Hove Food Partnership and overseen by the Food Strategy Expert Panel – a group of experts represented by business, academia, local government, the NHS, and the voluntary and community sector.
This plan also looks beyond the boundaries of the city and builds on our work with our neighbouring councils and food partnerships, the South Downs National Park, The Living Coast UNESCO Biosphere and national food policy organisations.
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How you can get involved
What can you do to support the Food Strategy Action Plan? Here are some suggestions, we’d love to hear your ideas. Email: info@bhfood.org.uk
Influencing policy
In addition to our local citywide Food Strategy, we work to ensure food is written into local, national and international policies. See our food strategy blogs for news and updates.
Useful resources and reports
- B&H Food Partnership case studies, reports & publications
- National Food Strategy Independent Review (Dimbleby et al. 2021)
- Just in Case: narrowing the UK civil food resilience gap (Lang, Neumann & So, 2025)
- Civil Food Resilience in Sussex (Ghanimi, 2026)
- Whole City Healthy Weight – (Annual Report of the Director of Public Health, 2024)
- The Broken Plate: The State of the Nation’s Food System report (Food Foundation, 2025)
- Local Food Growth Plan: A collaborative plan for action (Sustain, 2025)
- Paying the Price: Cheap food, big business and the cost to farming and food security (Food Farming and Countryside Commission, 2025)
- Milan Urban Food Policy Pact
