The UK Food Group is supporting the Eating Better alliance, a campaign that encourages people in the UK to eat less and better meat and promotes diets including more plant-based and unprocessed foods that are better for us and the planet. The UK Food Group is a partner network of the Eating Better alliance and Read more about Eating Better – eating less and better meat[…]
Parliament’s International Development Committee is holding an inquiry on global food security and today one of the UK Food Group’s co-chairs, Patrick Mulvany, was a witness at one of their evidence sessions. You can watch the session on video: The UK Food Group submitted written evidence to the inquiry back in December, and the committee Read more about Parliamentary evidence[…]
A strategy session to discuss policy opportunities to promote ecological and equitable models of sustainable food production and consumption was held during the 2012 Oxford Real Farming Conference, January 2012. Presentations Patrick Mulvany (UKFG) Opportunities to promote ‘Ecological Food Provision’ in the framework of food sovereignty presentation (pdf, 130kb) audio (mp3, 1.2mb, 8 mins) Julia Read more about Oxford Real Farming Conference 2012: Policy opportunities for agroecology[…]
The UK Food Group’s 2011 autumn conference, The Food Producers, looked at the real questions of how small-scale production can respond to the challenges of providing food in ways that eradicate hunger, improve equity and restore the environment. It was held in the run up to World Food Day, on 27 September 2011 at Friends Read more about The Food Producers: how can they continue feeding the world?[…]
The conference Securing future food explored approaches and models of production that would achieve a more equitable food system, including ecological food provision and strengthening local food webs. Organised in the run up to World Food Day and the FAO Committee on World Food Security with the help of many UK Food Group members and Sustain volunteers, Read more about Securing future food[…]
Securing future food: towards ecological food provision UK Food Group, 2010 We need to make a radical shift towards ecological food provision, developed in the framework of food sovereignty, in order to secure future food for the world’s predicted 9 billion people. The systems that currently feed most people in the world are smaller-scale and Read more about Securing Future Food: towards ecological food provision[…]
The conference, Rewriting the Rules…to secure our future food, identified and proposed changes to some selected national and international rules and regulations that need to be “rewritten” if we are to secure future food supplies in ways that are socially and environmentally sustainable. Organised in the run up to World Food Day 2009, the event was Read more about Rewriting the rules … to secure our future food[…]
Co-hosted with Friends of the Earth and Sustain The UKFG meeting on Soya, Amazon destruction and climate change – a perspective from Brazil, attended by more than 50 people, was the chance to hear the dynamic Father Edilberto Sena, both a Roman Catholic priest – influenced by Liberation Theology – and a campaigner who is seeking to Read more about Soya, Amazon destruction and climate change – a perspective from Brazil[…]
“Business as usual is not an option…continuing to focus on production alone will undermine our agricultural capital and leave us with an increasingly degraded and divided planet.“ Bob Watson (IAASTD Director and DEFRA Chief Scientist), March 2008 The UKFG meeting on 30 October 2008 “Agriculture at a Crossroads: Implementing the findings of the international agriculture assessment Read more about Agriculture at a crossroads: implementing the findings of IAASTD[…]