Sustainable Support For Farmers

EDM number 121 in 2009-10, proposed by Lindsay Hoyle on 19/11/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Food.

That this House calls for procurement policies on the purchasing of food supplied by local farmers to supply the supermarkets and shops in their local area; recognises the quality of locally grown and reared produce by local farmers; 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This motion has been signed by a total of 62 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.