Since we started ploughing we’ve moved over 130 billion tonnes of soil carbon into the atmosphere as CO2. That’s a lot less than fossil fuels, but it’s still equivalent to about half the excess carbon now in the atmosphere compared to pre-industrial levels. So getting some of
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The UN COP26 climate talks held in Glasgow this year ‘must tackle food systems’ to get world on track for net-zero. More than thirty NGOs, leading academics, local governments and industry bodies have written to COP26 President Alok Sharma asking him to bump food systems up the
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The climate in Scotland is generally considered unsuitable for growing bread wheat. Yet, across the country there are dedicated people growing, milling and baking great bread with Scottish grains. This summer, as part of my internship placement with Nourish Scotland and Scotland The Bread, I interviewed these
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On Monday 14th December representatives from governments around the world will meet to launch the Glasgow Declaration on Food and Climate. This initiative, hosted by Nourish Scotland and the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems, aims to put food at the heart of the climate
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It’s natural to put ‘food’ into the search box and see what this 135 page document says. But that would miss some of the most important messages. First, of course, the incorporation into Scots law of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This has
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The boss of Unilever wrote the foreword, and yet some sections of yesterday’s World Economic Forum report on ‘The Future of Nature and Business’ could have been written by Nourish: “COVID-19 is a stark reminder of how ignoring biophysical risks can have catastrophic health and economic impacts
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This blog post was originally a talk given by Keesje Avis at a webinar entitled “Scotland’s Response to the Climate Emergency” hosted by FoES and partners. See all the presentations here. When talking and thinking about climate change mitigation, we tend to talk about numbers and in
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Thousands of people have died, and thousands more are bereaved. Jobs are lost, businesses destroyed, hopes and plans in tatters. But it could have been even worse. What if the shops had actually run out of food, not just delivery slots? They didn’t. The massive stocking up,
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We are one month into a brand new decade. Nourish looks forward to continuing work on promoting Scotland’s Well-being agenda….. Have you heard Nicola Sturgeon (and others?) talking about the ‘Well-being Economy’? Our First Minister argues that we cannot go on measuring our successes just in terms
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No one who can walk and chew gum at the same time would deny that we are facing a climate emergency – and more worrying still, the prospect of irreversible loss of biodiversity at a global scale. There’s no doubt that co-ordinated actions by governments, businesses and
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