according to Hans Herren, co-Chair of IAASTD, and now President of the US Millennium Institute. He is a leading advocate of agroecology, a holistic farming model based on organic principles, where food is pr ... read more
Action Aid's stance against making soil carbon a traded commodity is needed. CFF believes arable land must produce healthy food with high calorific output per acre, e.g. market gardening. Carbon markets = p ... read more
CFF is pleased to announce that after a meeting in Manchester with stakeholders we are going to be piloting the CFF participatory certification scheme in the North West and London. The meeting gave the 16 stakeholders (and 10 giving their apologies) to give feedback and give ... read more
Making food fair- free event Manchester Town Hall 9th February - with Monty Don, Tim Lang, Deborah Doane and Julie Brown. Info Kindling Trust. One to really look forward to.
We are currently overhauling the website and will have a google maps linked directory of low carbon growers. In addition we are developing a new gardeners, grower/retailer (perfect for box schemes & farm shops) and consumer food carbon accounting toolkits.
This timely piece of work by Tom Beeston of www.eatengland.org brings together UK specific research. Tom has kindly let us reproduce his data for the new grower/retailer carbon calculator we are deve ... read more
It was really fulfilling to give a presentation at the Feeding Manchester 2 Conference of food producers and community food workers / volunteers on Saturday 24th August. I followed Kath Dalmeny, the Pol ... read more
according to Hans Herren, co-Chair of IAASTD, and now President of the US Millennium Institute. He is a leading advocate of agroecology, a holistic farming model based on organic principles, where food is pr ... read more
