Half the world’s population is now urbanised and cities are assuming a larger role in debates about the security and sustainability of the global food system. Hence, planning for sustainable food production and consumption is becoming an increasingly important issue for planners, policymakers, designers, farmers, suppliers, activists, business and scientists alike. The rapid growth of [...]
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Good technology or bad technology?
I’ve been intrigued for some time by the so many ways that ‘sustainability’ gets conflated. It doesn’t necessarily surprise me that most people don’t find it easy to engage with such a lofty idea, and usually I just agree with whatever people tell me sustainability ‘is’, smile, have another drink, and invite my interlocutor to [...]
The Best of the Internet: Food Resources on the Web
If you’re the type who likes to bandy about town with patched-elbow tweed jacket, newsboy cap, and a homily of postpositivist metatheory, then you’d best get on gettin’ on, because you won’t find much here. But if you’ve come for a few moments of peripheral vision – and I would argue that, to put an [...]
Special Issue Alert
The journal Animal Feed Science and Technology just published a “Special Issue: Greenhouse Gases in Animal Agriculture – Finding a Balance between Food and Emissions.” I found the link on the Food Climate Research Network (FCRN), which you can find here. The link to the issue is here. The relevant articles include: The significance of [...]
Street food – New discussion on FSN Forum
An interesting discussion forum about issues of food security and nutrition is the FSN forum hosted by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the UN. In the past years many topics relevant to PUREFOOD and FOODLINKS have been discussed, such as the ones on ‘Public procurement of agricultural good’, ‘Food, agriculture & cities’, ‘Climate change [...]
Introducing: the purefoodlinks document section
Starting today, you can find more resources here, in the form of documents. We will divide them in three categories, which you can browse: scientific documents popular documents policy documents Every document will have its own description and link. We hope you’ll find the documents useful. If you do, please let us know! View [...]
City Farmer News
Very interesting site with lots of videos on urban farming and school food.
Promising school food initiative
Jake Gyllenhaal has teamed up with Chef Alice Waters to teach Bay Area inner-city youth about sustainable farming and eating healthier. “I grew up around gardens and growing my own food, my family did that a lot and that was real source of community,” the Source Code actor said. “Growing up, more than anything, I [...]
Dilemmas: local and green, global and fair, or human and sustainable?
I have been giving a lot of thought these days to the issue of fairness of the international food trade. I caught myself thinking – what would happen to developing economies if Europe suddenly decided to be a food autarchy? A big chain of thoughts came out and it all started after I read some [...]
Podcast: Food and Public Space in a Global City
This conference may be of interest; speakers include Carolyn Steel, Paul Smyth, Martin Caraher, and Ben Reynolds. The podcast, audio files, and program outline are linked below. Event Date: 21 May 2011 Birkbeck, University of London Torrington Square, Bloomsbury London WC1E 7HX Food and Public Space in a Global City – Podcast [...]
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Leah Ashe: Thanks, Jess. First: Since I know you enjoy a good...
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