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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)
See also[edit | edit source]
- Food UK news (latest), 2022, 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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