Otter Farm in Devon tags itself ‘the UK’s only climate change farm’, aiming to take advantage of the warming climate to grow more exotic produce, and featuring a perennial allotment forest garden – owner Marc Diacono also leads the gardening team at River Cottage
This May 2010 Plunkett Foundation report Local Food and Climate Change considers the role of community food enterprises in addressing climate change
Transition Town Shaftesbury have a huge amount of local food initiatives going on – from renting farm land to apple juicing
A UK Food Security Summit was held in March 2010 to identify opportunities to co-operate across borders on food chain issues, share research and skills development and address climate change.
This WWF Report concludes that climate impacts of food are much higher than previously thought, rising from around 20% of UK climate emissions to 30% once land use change has been taken into account – How Low Can We Go? pdf
Food 2030 is the UK Government’s first new food strategy for 50 years – and this the Fife Diet’s response to it
Making Local Food Work is a lottery funded network, planning to invest £10m in local food initiatives across England over the next 5 years
This New Economics Foundation article concludes that street markets twics as many jobs as supermarkets – and food is half the price
This New Economics Foundation article concludes that local Council budgets could massively benefit local economies if money were spent more locally
This Countryside Alliance page provides some statistics on the impacts of supporting local food suppliers.
This report by agrifood consultancy EFFP concludes that there are many benefits in supplying local food via mainstream channels.
This 2007 report on the impacts of the $100 barrel of oil on UK food was commissioned by the Sustainable Development Commission
The Ecologist article 10 Steps to creating a local food group is taken from new Transition book Local Food
The Incredible Edible Todmorden project aims to radically increase the amount of local food via a range of activities including growing produce in public spaces
This 2001 report from the University of Essex outlines the benefits and drawbacks of local food systems including CSAs, box schemes and farmers’ markets
International network promoting Good, Clean and Fair food: Slow Food UK
A farm for the future - fantastic BBC programme considering what sustainable farming might look like - required viewing