CASwiki news articles have a focus on news of community action for sustainability. This article is an offshoot from Food activism UK and is for news and comment in that context. Image: Crowds shopping at Borough market, south London. Attribution: Andy F
- What do we think of when we think of luxury? A Walthamstow cafe that does magic with salvaged surplus food profoundly answers the question, The Daily Alternative (Feb 07, 2023)
July 2022[edit | edit source]
- We call for land strategy and new planning rules to guard food security, CPRE (Jul 20, 2022) — There’s been a hundred-fold increase in our best farmland lost to development in little more than a decade, new CPRE research has found. And 60% of our finest agricultural land is at risk of flooding. As a result, we’re telling government we need a land strategy and new planning rules to safeguard our food security
- Rooting for farmers, Wicked Leeks (Jul 04, 2022) — Former barrister and author Sarah Langford tells Nina Pullman why she wrote the defence case for farming and why the regenerative movement offers an escape from exploitive agribusiness.
May 2022[edit | edit source]
- How filling the UK’s unused land with fruit and veg could help make us and our environment healthier - and help fight inequality, The Conversation (May 17, 2022)
- In a hardscrabble Liverpool location, a community "pantry" (not a food bank) feeds both bodies and souls, The Daily Alternative (May 11, 2022)
March 2022[edit | edit source]
- Fringe Farming Report Reveals Green Recovery Potential, ShefFood (Mar 18, 2022)
- There are solutions to the food crisis. But ploughing up Britain isn’t one of them. George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Mar 16, 2022)
February 2022[edit | edit source]
- New grants to help communities tackle food and climate change, sustainweb.org (Feb 28, 2022) — Grants of up to £5,000 are open to any local food partnership, local authority or community group in the UK.
- How community ownership can secure the UK’s food security through buying family farms, Stir to Action (Feb 03, 2022) — How a national crisis of family-owned farms presents an opportunity for a new generation of community owners
January 2022[edit | edit source]
- A startling UK map showing how much we use land for animal agriculture - and how much solar is crowded out, The Alternative UK (Jan 24, 2022)
- Protein from gorse bushes could feed millions of people, says expert, The Guardian (Jan 10, 2022)
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See also[edit | edit source]
- Food UK news (latest), 2019-2021, 2017-2018, 2012-2016
- Food UK
- Food activism
- Food news
- 10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town, Dec 3, 2013
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