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Sustainable Food & Farming: Recent Reports
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Sustainable Food: Recent Reports. For details of the issues discussed below go to our. Subscribe to our feed. Latest on Food Prices from FT. We have opened up a new (Google) site called Sustainable Food reports. This carries about 5 or 6 reports each month that have something to do with food which is healthier for people and the planet. There is a wide range of reports, a lot of scientific stuff, both NGOs and Business reports, as well as news items. And neonicotinoid insecticides and bees.
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Sustainable Food Guide Land
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Environmental Practice at Work. Summary of SF Guide. Deals with the substance of the living ecosytem under our feet. 'Land' deals with the ownership of it. What we can do with the land very much depends on who owns that land. The largest private landowner is the Duke of Buccleach with 270,000 acres; and the wealthiest is the Duke of Westminster with 140,000 acres in the UK, 400,000 abroad, but most importantly 300 acres of the richest real estate in the world in central London.
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Food & Climate Change Links
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Environmental Practice at Work. Summary of SF Guide. Food and Climate Change Links. Stern Report Appendiz 7g. Rural Climate Change Forum. FCRN (Food Climate Research Network) Presentation. On Food & GHGs. Climate Change & Agricultural Research, Warwick Univeristy. Agriculture Industries and Climate. Climate Change at Work. Climate Change impacts on Food. Eldis Gateway to Development Information. Food Production impacts on Climate Change. Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) & Climate Change.
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GM Debate
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Environmental Practice at Work. Presentation at " Are GM crops fit for purpose? For what "productivity" means. The debate about the role of Genetic Modification is returning, as some are claiming it is the answer to world hunger / food security, while others say it isn't. In 2013 most of the UK supermarkets (except Waitrose) decided to allow GM feed for the animals in their supply chains. So we have opened up a new GMO debate site. Where you can join in. These include drought and salt resistant strains.
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Biodiveristy Issues
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Environmental Practice at Work. Summary of SF Guide. Everywhere in food and agriculture, from the supermarket shelves to the word production line, there are fewer varieties of plants and animlas. Biodiversity - or biological diversity - is the term given to the variety of life on Earth and the natural patterns it forms. The loss of diversity may limit future generations wishing to have as much genetic material as possible - a crucial element in Brundtland definition. Houses 4000 varieties, yet only about...
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Energy Issues
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Environmental Practice at Work. Food is energy. And it takes energy to get food. Food must yield more energy to the eater than is needed in order to acquire the food. If this energy balance remains negative for too long, death results. The energy ratio between food energy (out) and energy in has decreased dramatically in last 50 years. It was about 100 for traditional pre-industrial societies to less than 1, as fossil fuel use has increased. X201D; is reached, but peak it will at some point. Prices o...
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Ethical Issues info ..
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Environmental Practice at Work. THIS PAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION. Summary of SF Guide. We are hearing the term ethical more often. Sometimes it is used as a misnomer for environmental (eg Newsnights TV's Ethical Man) Which is a shame, as the term provides a useful tool to address issues - here to do with food. Just like the legal system, there are previous precedents and both have to arrive at a guilty/not guilty (or ethical. Food Ethics is concerned with the issues of right and wrong, and/or good and bad, a...
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Nutrition Issues
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Environmental Practice at Work. Summary of SF Guide. According to the World Health Organisation, almost all countries are experiencing an obesity epidemic, called globesity. Obesity and starvation are now found alongside each other. In developed countries, obesity is not only common in the middle-aged, but is becoming ever more common among younger adults and children. Latest figures from WHO. Click button for UK statistics. Worldwide, the number of cases of diabetes is currently estimated to be around 1...
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Fair Trade Issues
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Environmental Practice at Work. Fair Trade' means an equitable and fair partnership between traders and producers. Most traders are in the developed world, while many producers are in the developing, or underdeveloped world. Most food producers in the developing world are paid a pittance compared with developed world prices. There are 2 issues for fair trade:. The price paid to the small farmers for their produce. The wage paid to workers in factories and on plantations. Wake up and smell the Coffee.
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Drag & Drop a meal
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Sustainable Food Drag and Drop. You can make a sustainable meal - without moving, choping, cooking or serving! This online exercise aims to help you:. Use indicators of sustainability. Recognise how to balance various concerns. Start to count carbon and water in your food. Your mouse to drag each of the foods you ate in your last meal and arrange around the plate. The name of the meal in the title box. Each food image has three indicators of key elements of sustainability. Amount of Carbon Dioxide (CO.