The partnership has now been given a silver award by the UK Sustainable Food Places programme, which recognises areas that are driving innovation and best practice on all aspects of healthy and sustainable food.
Leon Ballin, Sustainable Food Places programme manager, said: “The Torfaen Food Partnership has shown just what can be achieved when creative and committed people work together to make healthy and sustainable food a defining characteristic of where they live.
“While there is still much to do and many challenges to overcome, Torfaen Food Partnership has helped to set a benchmark for the other members of the UK Sustainable Food Places Network to follow. They should be very proud of the work that they have been doing to transform our collective food culture and food system for the better.”
The council's food resilience team has given grants to 34 community groups and 13 businesses through the Food4Growth partnership. The Cwmbran Centre for Young People received a grant to provide young people with cooking lessons as well as lessons in preserving food, bread making and butter churning.