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Sustainable Food
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'Sustainable' Food is food that is healthier for People and the Planet...

People: There are nearly a billion people in the world overweight - about the same number as those who go hungry. This crisis is usually called: "the double burden".

Planet: There are increasing demands on land for food, feed, fuel and fibre. To produce UK food, we need about 5X  UK's land surface - according to our 'Food Footprint'. (Food Footprints: What Why Who & How)

WHAT is "Sustainable" food?  Our food needs to use less vital resources like oil, and emit less greenhouse gases (Environmental), treat those in food chain better (Social), and make money for business investment (Economic) Fuller Answer

WHY "Sustainable" food? - when we already have organic, assured, ethical, slow food, & fair trade? graphic: click for answer Fuller Answer
image: cartoon - starving & obese people
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HOW can 'Food' help 'the Environment'? Scenario 1- Fatten up or Scenario 2 - Integrate

WHERE are you in the "sustainable" Food Chain?...
image: Food Pyramid adapted from USDA Diet Pyramid
 SUSTAINABLE FOOD GUIDE...

The free Sustainable Food  Guide is a Recipe for Success. It sets out the issues to make food "more sustainable". The SF Guide suggests what you can do to improve sustainable food provision, by adopting & adapting a quality system. There are many skills to develop, from basic cooking and healthy food procurement to tracing environmental and ethical impacts - many thousands of miles away. These skills could be promoted with vocational qualifications.

RECENT REPORTS ABOUT FOOD, HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT

Cabinet Office - Food MAtters: RELU - Land to Mouth; Bidwells - Bull Run in Soft Commodities; Parliamentary debate - Food Security; Ernst & Young - Food 4 Thought; Wall St Journal - Company Profits Soar; WRAP Household Waste; EU -Citizens poll on CAP; GECAFS - Food Security; Chatham House - Rising Food Prices; IAASTD - Agricultural Science for Decision Makers; PASA - Sustainable Food; PSFPI Useful Sources; Reuters Feature - food prices soaring; Syngenta - Sustainable Agriculture; LINK -  Beyond the pillars; Nestle - Good Food, Good Life; EEATime for Action in Food & Drink; SDC - Green Healthy & Fair; USDA - Wheat Stocks v. Low; The Land - Can Britain Feed Itself?; Greenpeace - Cool Farming; Stockholm Environment Institute - Ecological Fooptrint of what we eat;

Click graphic for more details of the reports and their links.
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