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Healthy food futures – a climate of change

The increasing community interest in food systems is often attributed to concerns about climate change. Questions such as Local food - an environment for change? are becoming evermore common. Research is now Connecting the Global Climate Change and Public Health Agendas and aiming at encouraging and enabling people to eat healthier, locally produced foodstuffs claimed to [...]

By |September 4th, 2012|Growing Change|Comments Off on Healthy food futures – a climate of change

Local food – a homegrown environment for change?

It used to be the norm. According to our grandparents the backyard garden and neighbourly food exchanges were a part of our way of life. Click through to the twenty first century to a different everyday scenario. The connection with homegrown and unspoiled an alien notion, replaced by the easy convenience of drive thorough supermarket [...]

By |August 15th, 2012|Growing Change|Comments Off on Local food – a homegrown environment for change?