Sustainable Food
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Resources
BFoE materials
http://www.bristolfoe.org.uk/?Content=Campaign=realfood - BFoE public real food webpage
Presentation given at 'local groups' session at FoE UK conference 2008: check copyrights before publishing:
Happy Healthy Food Presentation (834kb) - pdf format
Presentation for Bristol colaboration meeting 22 Jan 2009 (incorporates most of above):
Food Futures presentation (893kb) - pdf format
following resource temporarily here because of problems uploading under 'low carbon':
Objection to application 09/03235/F for biofuel power plant
FoE materials
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/livestock_impacts_summary.pdf (1Mb)
http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/real_food/news/2008_food_chain_launch.html
non-FoE materials
The following are particularly helpful documents about sustainable food:
Eat Well and Save the Planet! (pdf 683kb) - Sustain's guide to sustainable food, FoE's message but phrased as instructions not information
Why its green to go vegetarian (Vegetarian Society, includes link to pdf) - best printed A5 leaflet available to date describing environmental impacts of meat, but not dairy
Greenpeace 'Crime File' (pdf 329kb) links meat and fast food companies to Amazon destruction
Greenpeace related documents
Summary from People and Planet
Other Documents
Transition Bristol food mapping reports Mar09 (24kb) - pdf format
Videos
"A Farm for the Future", Rebecca Hosking, BBC Natural World 2009
References
The following is a collection of reference articles for the research phase of our Sustainable Food campaign. We don't necessarily endorse everything in them.
FoE documents
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/food_climate_change.pdf
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/hoofprints.pdf
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/media_briefing/food_crisis.pdf
General Food reports on Environment and Health
UN "Livestock's Long Shadow" - environmental:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.htm
WHO "Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases" - health:
http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/publications/trs916/en/
Viva "Diet of Disaster", Tony Wardle:
http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/hot/dietofdisaster/index.php
http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/hot/downloads/environment_a4_report.pdf
Books (readable online)
"The China Study", T Colin Campbell, tales from US academic food research - but do the data support the conclusions?
Google Books
"The Food Revolution", John Robbins, environment and health impacts of diet
Google Books
Animal products Consumption
http://www.sustainweb.org/page.php?id=397 - Sustain: Less is More on meat and dairy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_vegetarianism - a definition someone has previously put on wikipedia
UN says eat less meat, IPCC says it causes more climate change than transport:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7600005.stm - BBC
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/07/food.foodanddrink - Guardian
Telegraph
Food and Agriculture
http://www.soilassociation.org/conference - very topical session recordings and presentations
http://faostat.fao.org/ - comprehensive UN database of food production and consumption since 1960's
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html - comprehensive CIA database of statistics by country and area with many useful statistics and descriptions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_protein_per_unit_area_of_land
http://www.teagasc.ie/publications/2001/tillageconference/paper06.htm - some organic rotations and yeilds
Links
Many of these come from Bristol's Share the Harvest 2008 website
http://www.bristolfoodhub.org/ - Healthy Food for People and Planet
http://www.grofun.org.uk/ - Growing Real Organic Food in Urban Neigbourhoods website
http://www.localfooddirect.co.uk/ - Somerset Local Food Direct
http://www.hheag.org.uk/ - Hartcliffe Health and Environment Action Group
http://www.soilassociation.org/ - The Soil Association, UK's main organic certififier
http://www.sustainweb.org/ Sustain, The Alliance for Better Food and Farming website
Eat Somerset - Bringing Local Food to Local Shops
Taste South Gloucestershire - open days and activities hosted by local food and drink producers
Allotments at the Bristol City Council
http://www.voscur.org/ - Supporting Voluntary and Community Action
http://www.fcrn.org.uk/ - Food Climate Research Network
http://www.commonground.org.uk
http://www.farmgarden.org.uk/ - Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens
The Boiling Wells Project at St Werburghs City Farm
http://www.makinglocalfoodwork.co.uk/
http://www.bristollocalfood.co.uk/ - Bristol Local Food Directory
