International links: United States of America
Sustain has links with the following organisations in the USA:
- Centre for Science in the Public Interest, which educates the public and campaigns for government policies that promote good food and protects people’s health and the environment.
http://www.cspinet.org/ - Community Food Security Coalition, a non-profit network organisation that aims to build a strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensures access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for all people at all times. The coalition has over 300 member organisations, see: http://www.foodsecurity.org/
- Family Farmed, which promotes local and responsibly grown food around Chicago. http://www.familyfarmed.org/
- Growing Power, which was established by the award-winning Will Allen. This Milwaukee-based project inspires diverse communities to build sustainable food systems.
http://www.growingpower.org/
In addition, Edible Cities http://www.sustainweb.org/urbanagriculture/edible_cities/ is a report of a Sustain visit in 2008 to urban agriculture projects in the USA and contains a number of links to US-based organisations.