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  • News There’s many that make a claim for the stabilising and liberating effect of basic income. Landworkers and farmers have one of the best cases, Daily Alternative (Oct 10, 2024)
  • News All hail the greengrocer buses tackling the UK’s food deserts, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Oct 09, 2024)
  • News The UPF giants: “staggering” global emissions of the top 10 food and drink manufacturers higher than UK’s total carbon footprint, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Oct 01, 2024) — Ultra processed foods aren't just damaging our health – they're decimating the environment too
  • News ‘The system is the problem, not people’: how a radical food group spread round the world, theguardian.com (Sep 13, 2024) — Incredible Edible’s guerrilla gardening movement encourages people to take food-growing – and more – into their own hands. “The biggest obstacle is the inability of people in elected positions to cede power to the grassroots,” Pam Warhurst
  • News A community food supply, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Aug 14, 2024) — Urban farms are bypassing supermarkets to create their own local food systems and connect communities. Robbie Armstrong reports

July 2024[edit | edit source]

  • News Fruit & veg deserts & the death knoll of the local greengrocer, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 23, 2024) — Is there a way back?
  • News Regen, organic & agroecology: what’s the difference?, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 17, 2024)
  • News Floods fuelled 19% drop in income from farming in England in 2023, theguardian.com (Jul 12, 2024)
  • News Home-grown: A roadmap to resilient fruit and vegetable production in England. A collaboration, 360 report published by The Soil Association, Sustain and The Wildlife Trusts, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 03, 2024) — the report outlines seven steps to restore resilience to the horticulture sector

June 2024[edit | edit source]

  • News Food Conversation inviting local communities to host their own event and join unique UK-wide conversation about food, ffcc.co.uk (Jun 19, 2024) — Hundreds of people have taken part in The Food Conversation over the past year with more conversations to come in London, Cornwall, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
  • News What are the embryonic initiatives that quickly and radically transform society? Maybe ours will be gardens, suggests Greg Frey, Daily Alternative (Jun 06, 2024)

May 2024[edit | edit source]

  • News It's time to listen closely to farmers, Dr Charlie Taverner: real food security starts with rebuilding confidence, ffcc.co.uk (May 13, 2024)

March 2024[edit | edit source]

  • News Is this the blueprint for a food bank that’s more human?, positive.news (Mar 26, 2024)
  • News ‘We’re totally pay as you can’: the UK restaurant prioritising people and planet, theguardian.com (Mar 06, 2024)

February 2024[edit | edit source]

  • News ‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming, theguardian.com (Feb 25, 2024)

Blogs[edit | edit source]

"Awesome Allotment Blogs", WhatShed.co.uk Blog

See also[edit | edit source]

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Keywords uk news, uk topic news, food
Authors Phil Green
License CC-BY-SA-3.0
Language English (en)
Related 5 subpages, 15 pages link here
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Created January 12, 2019 by Phil Green
Last modified October 5, 2024 by Phil Green
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