VISION

Our vision is for an empowered network of people transforming Lambeth with an abundance of healthy food grown in a thriving, biodiverse environment

PURPOSE

We exist to nurture a localised food network providing an abundance of affordable, nutritious fruit and veg, with a food growing space within 100m of each Lambeth home.

AIMS

Grow our people: food growers are connected, skilled and well resourced

Grow our place: Lambeth land is high quality and productive with localised composting, food growing, water management and biodiversity. Food growers have secure access to land. 

Grow our network: a decentralised network where our members self-organise, share resources, provide mutual support, exchange food, resources, information and ideas and advocate for a sustainable food system. Agroecological local food production is expanded and shared. 

Grow our business: IEL has resilient income to deliver the vision

Grow our organisation: IEL has open, resilient and inclusive governance and partnerships across the food system that deliver the vision. We work in partnership with allied organisations to deliver our vision and purpose.

VALUES

We support and advocate for access to healthy, affordable food, grown and produced locally.

We value sustainable food systems that support the environment and promote biodiversity.

We believe in social justice and promoting ways for everybody to have access to locally grown food.

We believe in nurturing relationships and fostering collaboration across our community.

PRINCIPLES

We support our members to advocate for access to healthy, affordable, culturally appropriate food, grown and produced locally under an agroecological system that supports human and ecological wellbeing.

We support Food Sovereignty which was coined at the World Food Summit in Rome in 1996 and further developed by Via Campesina into six key pillars. A seventh pillar was added a little later, recognising the right to indigenous food. Food sovereignty is the right of each nation to maintain and develop its own capacity to produce its basic foods respecting cultural and productive diversity. We have the right to produce our own food in our own territory. Food sovereignty is a precondition to genuine food security.