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Food Movement
COP26 farming event and new initiative show how agriculture can be a climate change solution
Food and farming event at COP26 and launch of ambitious new initiative shines a light on the power of agriculture to be a climate change ...
Sustainable Food Trust at COP26
The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference takes place in Glasgow during the first two weeks of November 2021. We will be joining ...
Bristol Food Producers: Who feeds us?
This project, run by Bristol Food Connections, aims to reconnect people with our rural hinterland by introducing some of the farmers and ...
The TED Talks | Farming and Climate Change: Measuring Success
On the 29th April 2021, we launched our coalition for the Global Farm Metric project with TEDx Countdown. Watch the video recording from ...
Reclaiming the forest: The Indigenous struggle for land rights in Kenya
The Sengwer community in Western Kenya play a vital role in safeguarding the forest, but they have been battling forced evictions for dec...
Citizen power: A force for change
Patrick Holden explores how citizen power acting in the marketplace can be a force for change
Standing in solidarity with farmers in India
The farmers protests in India reveal the deep cracks in our global food systems. It is our collective responsibility to support them in t...
The importance of localised abattoirs
In this article, Angus D. Birditt speaks to butchers, farmers and consumers to understand the role localised abattoirs play in making our...
Detroit’s Eastern Market: Supporting food producers in a crisis
In this article, Marianne Landzettel explains how Detroit transitioned from Motown to 'Growtown', highlighting the role of the Eastern ma...
Make markets matter
From the Central Market of Valencia, to Borough Market in London, food markets play a vital role in reconnecting communities to their foo...
Flour power: The miller’s tale
Olivia Oldham outlines the vital role of flour throughout lockdown, and the unexpected ways in which it brought certain communities together
So close, but so far?
After the recent failure of government to protect the UK's food standards, a lot of us have been left wondering what we can do. Encouragi...