- For better school food, and food skills, and protecting children from junk food marketing
- An informal network of London restaurants and catering businesses that care about sustainability
- Evidence of the contribution of food and farming to climate change
- Highlighting the connections between diet, mental health and behaviour
- How action can protect the environment, enhance social justice and improve health
- Campaigning for a law on healthy and sustainable food for schools, hospitals, care homes
- Practical help to increase healthy and sustainable food in schools, hospitals, care homes…
- Local and regional activity that promotes healthy and sustainable food
- Helping producers, consumers, retailers and caterers provide healthy and sustainable food
- Reconnecting people and land through local food
- Working for sustainable food at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
- Practical advice for anyone interested in buying and using more sustainable food
- Spreading information about urban food growing in London, the UK and worldwide
- Working in 10 deprived London areas to improve access to affordable and sustainable food
- Inspired by the London 2012 Food Vision, the campaign for healthy and sustainable food in catering
- Challenging businesses and citizens to make London the world's first Sustainable Fish City
- Sustainable food news in London
- Demonstrating and promoting the benefits of urban agriculture
- 2,012 new food growing spaces by the end of 2012
- Find or set up a Food Co-op in your area
- For bread made with natural ingredients
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Five years on from the initial report into the impact of food miles, this update assesses how the debate has moved on. It includes: updated statistics and analysis of the effects of pollution, packaging, processing; biodiversity and nutrition; a review of local alternatives and recommendations for action.
Contents
Introduction
Why run a Food Miles Campaign?
Some Food Miles facts
Misery miles
Is our food still travelling further?
The effect of more Food Miles
Transport pollution
More packaging
More processing
Biodiversity loss
Agro-chemical use
Nutritional implications
Implications for producers
The implications for developing countries
Campaign update and the industry and government response
Checking out the supermarkets
Local alternatives
Direct retailing
Regional focus groups
Growing your own
Recommendations for action
Action by individuals
Action by farmers and growers
Action by food retailers and processors
Action by local authorities
Action by national governments
Contact List
Box schemes and farmers’ markets
Seeds and advice on growing your own fruit and vegetables
Transport campaigns
Fair Trade and developing country initiatives
Farm shops
Major retailers
Regional promotions
References
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