Hi all!

Are there UK equivalents of this?

Thanks!

Farmer to Family Plans in Canada
These activities involve NGO’s contracting directly with farmers to distribute food. They sometimes take the form of neighbourhood “farmers’ markets” and are advanced  as means of helping to reduce FI/FP. An example of such a program is the Good Food Box run out of Toronto’s FoodShare program. Based on the Sao Paulo Sacalo Markets program, it made its first deliveries in 1994 (Field, 2014). It is a collective buying program delivering fresh fruits and vegetables at a discounted cost to low-income individuals (Johnston, 2003). In 2015, the Good Food Box delivered over 30,000 boxes in the Greater Toronto Area (FoodShare, 2016). 
	By 2013, there were Good Food Box programs across 50 communities in Canada (Laporte Potts, 2013; Collins et al., 2014). While a worthy exercise with some evidence of participation reducing FI/FP at least in the immediate term, these activities acting as a solution to the FI/FP crisis in Canada is unlikely (Bedore, 2018; Rose Bell et al., 2014).  Loopstra and Tarasuk (2013) found that among 371 low income families in Toronto – of which 277 were food insecure -- only four families (1.1%) used the Good Food Box program. 

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