#Local-food

IPES Food (International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems) has a new report,  Food From Somewhere: Building food security and resilience through territorial markets. The report argues that territorial food systems are better able to promote food security than industrial food

Sustainable Food Trust has a report on a conference on the True Cost of American Food. Health is the obvious cost, but others include: the cost of nitrate and pesticide pollution of ground and river water from agro-chemicals, which in some areas of the US are so high that the water industry is

Lisa Chase and Vern Grubinger.  Food, Farms, and Community: Exploring Food Systems.  University of New Hampshire Press, 2014. Here’s my blurb for this excellent and most useful book: If you haven’t a clue as to what’s meant by food systems, read Food, Farms, and Community right now.  The book