Exeter City Council

The actions we track

• Regional food strategy coordination group / food partnership

  4.60Supporting

• Prioritize plant-based/vegan traders in markets & licensing

  4.00Supporting

• Shift land ownership/control into community hands for green space, reforestation, and community food gardens (asset transfer/CLTs/right-to-buy where applicable)

  4.00Supporting

• Plant-based catering requirements for major venues & events

  3.68Supporting

• Declare a climate emergency (including explicit recognition of food-system emissions and plant-based transition)

  2.60Supporting

• Education in schools to reduce animal-based food consumption (curriculum/resources/programmes)

  1.63Supporting

• Provide stewardship subsidies for landowners/farmers restoring ecosystem services (carbon, biodiversity, flood defence)

  1.31Supporting

• Support programme for food businesses to transition to plant-based offerings

  1.22Supporting

• Targets for plant-based/plant-rich procurement in public catering

  1.22Supporting

• Food security priority policy (ending poverty/hunger; nutritious food accessible for all)

  1.02Supporting

• Public awareness campaigns for food transition (reduce meat/dairy, plant-rich)

  0.44Supporting

• Rewilding and land restoration payments/subsidies for former livestock land

  0.37Supporting

• Community food hubs / social supermarkets prioritising affordable plant-based staples

  0.33Supporting

• Plant-based options offered in council catering/venues (non-default)

  0.08Supporting

• Adopt plant-forward / plant-based procurement policy

  0.00Neutral

• Coastal habitat restoration / blue carbon projects (seagrass, saltmarsh, kelp where applicable)

  0.00Neutral

• Deforestation-free supply chains: no ecosystem clearing for animal farming; mandatory trade deal clauses

  0.00Neutral

• Dietary guidelines updated to recommend reduced meat/dairy and plant-based food shift

  0.00Neutral

• Divestment from animal agriculture / livestock-heavy investments

  0.00Neutral

• Endorse Plant-Based Treaty / commit to national plant-based food transition

  0.00Neutral

• Farmer transition grants/advice to shift from livestock to horticulture and plant-protein crops

  0.00Neutral

• Include livestock methane in carbon budgets and climate targets; mandatory livestock methane reporting

  0.00Neutral

• Integrate plant-based nutrition into JSNA / public health strategy

  0.00Neutral

• Planning enforcement/refusal guidance for intensive livestock & slaughterhouse proposals

  0.00Neutral

• Prevent conversion of cropland to animal feed crops (feed maize/soya)

  0.00Neutral

• Repurpose council farmland/grazing land to nature recovery (rewilding/woodland creation/habitat restoration)

  0.00Neutral

• Shift policy support from monoculture toward diversified agroecological/veganic/regenerative farming (permaculture principles)

  0.00Neutral

• Urban biodiversity programme (trees, wildflowers, green roofs, wildlife corridors, green community projects)

  0.00Neutral

• Reform farm subsidies and agri-environment schemes to reward reduced livestock density and shift to horticulture/plant-protein crops

  -0.24Opposing

• Map and support plant-protein processing infrastructure (pulses, legumes) and value chains

  -0.32Opposing