Food Sovereignty, Food Sustainability and Land Use/Distribution
3rd May 2013
A few useful websites on Food Sovereignty, Food Sustainability and Land Use/Distribution.
Compiled by the South Lakes World Development Movement group following their showing of the documentry Growing Change, about Venezaula’s food revolution.
http://www.wdm.org.uk/what-food-sovereignty .
http://www.realseeds.co.uk/seedlaw.html an urgent call to lobby UK EU commissioner Katherine Ashton to stop EU legislation on seed regulation that threatens biodiversity on May 6th 2013.
http://www.waronwant.org/search?searchword=food+sovereignty&ordering=newest&searchphrase=all#content.
UN Food and Agricultural Organization http://www.fao.org/index_en.htm
Multinational control over food supplies
From Food Monopolies to Food Commonshttp://www.slowfood.com/international/food-for-thought/focus/111928/from-food-monopolies-to-food-commons/q=B4FF9D?-session=query_session:42F948D91883b1EB82Ki5A328EE0
Monopoly of grain trade http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/monopoly-of-grain-trade-has-forced-millions-into-starvation-say-charities-8462260.html
Global food losses and waste. http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/mb060e/mb060e00.pdfEnough.
Enough Food for Everyone. http://enoughfoodif.org/about-campaign.
UK food security http://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk/issue/uk.html
Climate change and food supply http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/13/climate-change-threat-food-supplies
Land speculation what is it bad for? http://www.progress.org/fold43.htm.
Community land trusts http://www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/home
Who gets EU farm subsidies http://farmsubsidy.org/GB/.
EU lobbying in agriculture. http://corporateeurope.org/agribusiness
Only 50% of land is registered in the UK so who owns
the land?http://libcom.org/news/article.php/land-ownership-right-roam-uk-10032006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/aug/07/tim-adams-who-owns-britain
Local initiatives
SLACC TT http://slacc.org.uk/
South Lakeland Orchard Group http://www.slorchards.co.uk/
Growing Well http://www.growingwell.co.uk/
Staveley Big Onion http://www.sustainablestaveley.org.uk/staveley-big-onion/
Cumbria Fair Trade walk http://www.fairtradeway.org.uk.
Ambleside Allotments association http://www.amblesideallotments.org.uk/
Lakeland Permaculture http://www.lakelandpermaculture.co.uk/
Community Roots Kendal http://www.chestnutevents.org.uk/index.php/projects?id=77