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2010

November

Good Food on the Public Plate Awards 30 Nov London "will build on past work to increase the proportion of healthy and sustainable food in the meals served by the public sector." How to enter

October

AESOP Sustainable Food Planning Conference 29-30 Oct Brighton "Planning for sustainable food production and consumption is an increasingly important issue for planners, policymakers, designers, farmers, suppliers, activists, business and scientists alike." Call for papers.

Incredible Edible's of Todmorden host Peckham Conference Oct 9th to hear about a Northern town's growing success. More about IET on our site

July

DEFRA announce abolition of Sustainable Development Commission, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and Agricultural Wages Board (Unite's response to AWB closure). If 'sustainable' means = balanced development between economic, environmental and social concerns, this is a "recipe for disaster". On the environment/conservation aspects alone, a new consultation to shape Natural Environment White Paper is announced.

DfID (Dept for International Development) "has longstanding experience in managing research in agriculture and renewable natural resources. In 2006-2007 it invested over £30 million in research on sustainable agriculture and is committed to doubling funding on agriculture, fisheries and forestry to £80 million per annum by 2010". More. Most of this £80m is going to fund 15 agricultural research stations part of CGIAR. What's the matter with CGIAR?. DfID funding is ring fenced by the Coalition government, while Wellesbourne Vegetable Research Station in UK is being closed for want of £2m/yr.

EU parliament vote on food labelling - to extend "country of origin" labels to meat and poultry but to ditch "traffic light" system in favour of GDA system, promoted by food industry.

June
Socialist Health Alliance Conference Every person a Well Fed Person. Charlie gave keynote presentation. about his voyage of discovery over last 50 years trying to work out why everybody in the world is not a well fed person.

Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research in Agriculture and Health opens with Conference on 23 Jun e in Bloomsbury London. Its aims are "to build a new intersectoral and interdisciplinary platform for integrating research in agriculture and health, with a focus on international development goals". Apply for limted places here

May

Lang & Clutterbuck argue in online Guardian article Food can help cut Fiscal Deficit what better way to "save £6bn this year rising to £10bn per year next year and ever after – with no public sector cuts or increases in taxes? And, what if this also boosted the green economy, creating jobs? And met consumer demand? And helped improve health?" than grow more of our own food - at present responsible for £15b deficit.

Making Local Food Work for People and Planet Conference May 5 Manchester "will explore how community food enterprises benefit both people and planet. Community food enterprises come in many different forms from farmers’ markets to community-owned shops and Community Supported Agriculture enterprises. What is the role and potential for such enterprises in making local food work for people and planet?"

Food Poverty and Inequality 13 May London. The growth of hunger in UK, lecture by Prof Martin Caraher at City University, "will argue that the current policy focus on food security is not effectively addressing the growing inequality and increase in UK food poverty."

March

Threat to horticultural research at Warwick (HRI). "An influential cross-party grouping of MPs and Lords is calling for an independent review of the potential impact on the UK’s agricultural science base of the planned merger between Warwick HRI and the University of Warwick’s Department of Biological Sciences" Farmers Guardian. Check which MPs have signed up for the Warwick HRI Early Day Motion1142. Much more

Cargill threatens to delist Indonesian as a Palm Oil Producer over allegations of illegal logging. Cargill may join top palm oil buyers Unilever and Nestle who have already said they would stop buying palm oil from Sinar Mas after Greenpeace released a report showing the planter cleared rainforests.

Global Food SecurityUK research community unites to help ensure future Global Food Security, aimed at meeting the challenge of providing the world’s growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of good quality food using less land and fewer resources.

Feb

Dig for VictoryImperial War Museum Ministry of Food website focuses on "how wartime restrictions affected the lives of ordinary people: how they tended their vegetable gardens and allotments, how they shopped (and queued) for food, how they cooked and how they ate".

and talking of the Ministry of Food...

Jamie Oliver @ TED Prize in US (webcam) wishes "for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity". More on Jamie's Food Revolution and US Petition. In March ISER Paper Healthy school meals and Educational Outcomes "uses the "Jamie Oliver Feed Me Better" campaign to evaluate the impact of healthy school meals on educational outcomes" and "finds evidence that healthy school meals did improve educational outcomes, in particular in English and Science."

Jan 19 David King City Food Lecture (webcam) on 'Managing the Earth's Resources to Deliver Food for Nine Billion'.

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