The Sustainable Food Cymru (SFC) project brings academics and societal partners from across Wales to stir up thinking about food and contribute meaningfully to holistic food system change as a route to NetZero in Wales.

Sustainable Food Cymru was established to develop and inspire transdisciplinary research with a specific focus on Welsh food sovereignty and food as a mechanism of adaptation for a local, flourishing future globally.

With the support of the Wales Innovation Network, SFC has held two workshops with societal partners from the length and breadth of Wales.

The first of the project’s events was an online webinar where the food writer, Simon Wright provided an outline of the current food crisis and the instability of supply chains. The second transdisciplinary workshop showcased local initiatives, methods and approaches in a lively two day in-person event on the Lampeter Campus of UWTSD. The workshop asked the questions, ‘How did we get here?’ and ‘What do we want Wales look like in 30 years?’ to stimulate discussion of how to create a food system that people can afford and that cares for bodies and the environment.

Partners’ projects

• Cook 24 was the pilot cooking project that inspired the creation of Cegin y Pobl – The People’s Kitchen– an enterprise that hopes to kickstart a revolution by connecting people to food through cooking.
• Leekit – a unique intercontinental educational project partnership between Wales and Brazil, funded by the UNDP’s Conscious Food Systems Alliance, that connects children to their culture through food.
• Hot Potato: A series of in-person food ethics talks, centred on hot topics, aimed at encouraging public debate.