UK’s Food Standards Agency to be Restructured
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Thu, 22/07/10 – 9:49 | No Comment

The rumours circulating around the future of the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) were made official on July 20, 2010 with a Prime Minister’s ministerial statement. The FSA is to remain as a non-ministerial department …

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The Conference on Biodiversity 2010 – the “mitigation of perverse and the promotion of positive”
Tuesday, 18 May, 2010 – 11:14 | No Comment
The Conference on Biodiversity 2010 – the “mitigation of perverse and the promotion of positive”

The conference on biodiversity (CBD), running from 10-21 May 2010, is currently taking place in Nairobi. As 2010 is also the UN “International Year of Biodiversity” there has been quite a lot of activity surrounding …

UK Food Group Briefing – Food Sovereignty, Agroecology & Ecological Food Provision
Monday, 17 May, 2010 – 12:28 | One Comment
UK Food Group Briefing – Food Sovereignty, Agroecology & Ecological Food Provision

This briefing paper by the UK Food Group is a beautifully framed presentation of what is wrong with the international food system and how it can be brought back into balance.  While the paper addresses …