Critical Mapping for Sustainable Food Design
WEBMay 2, 2023 · Drawing on an array of case studies from across the world, from urban rooftop farms and community cookers to mobile apps and food design cards, this book provides vitally important information about existing sustainable food design outcomes in a way that is organized, accessible, and informative.
Local communities are key to equitable, sustainable food systems ...
WEBMay 19, 2021 · Two local success stories of nature-positive, equitable food production. Two examples from Mozambique and Tanzania demonstrate that community ownership and empowered women are instrumental to achieving measurable, replicable, and scalable impacts that reduce poverty and inequity and improve ecosystem health.
WEBThe purpose of Community Food Mapping is to ensure that your local food strategy responds to the needs, interests and experiences of different individuals and communities in your place.
What is ‘local’ food and why does it matter? - Sustainable Food …
WEBFeb 28, 2024 · Local people involved in their food supply chains, from community supported agriculture to growing schemes and community-run retail outlets, benefit from closer social bonds and a positive sense of place.
Eat Local Sustainable Food - Green Living Toolkit
WEBFor fresh, local, in-season food strive to find everything you want to eat within 50 miles. Fruit and veggies grown out of season in greenhouses, or grown in other states or countries, require large amounts of water, fertilizer, pesticides, and energy to raise, store, and ship long distances.
Local food systems: Reviewing two decades of research
WEBOct 1, 2021 · Governments and civil society organisations have actively promoted local food systems over the past decades. • We systematically test eight common claims on local food systems against multi-disciplinary scientific evidence. • Their impact on social, economic and environmental factors highly depends on …
Fast Facts – What are sustainable food systems?
WEBA sustainable food system is a food system that delivers food security and nutrition for all. The system encompasses everything from the processing, packaging and the transporting of food to...
Towards Sustainable Food Systems: How to feed, not deplete the …
WEBSep 28, 2023 · How can a food systems transition make a difference? With most of the world’s extremely poor living in rural areas and relying on agriculture to survive, efforts to transform global food...
Local Food is Sustainable Food? The Evidence Says Otherwise.
WEBMay 27, 2021 · Buying from your nearby farmer's market offers a number of important benefits. Environmental sustainability and local economic growth are not among them, according to a new review of the evidence.
Rethinking Food Systems - UNEP
WEBJun 4, 2021 · Agroecology (also referred to as ecological or regenerative agriculture) is one of the most effective ways to make food systems more sustainable; and to build a safer, cleaner, more inclusive post-COVID world. By drawing on natural processes like biological nitrogen fixation, biodiversity and recycling – rather than chemicals, which reduce ...