Advocacy Toolkit: People centred advocacy for a more sustainable food system aims to provide essential guidance and ideas to advocacy professionals and civil society organisations wishing to mobilise and support low-income citizen groups to advocate for improved diets.
Fostering civic action and agency to ensure that citizens have voice and choice in relation to the food they eat is vital. However, food systems are complex and many actors help shape and influence them at local, national and international levels. By lobbying from the grassroots up, systemic changes to food systems can be made in order to address local and national challenges.
This toolkit is ideal for civil society organisations that work with those most affected and neglected by food policy, low-income consumers, producers, traders, processors and vendors - the people who form the backbone of informal food systems, but whose needs are rarely factored in by policymakers.