Archive for the Food governance Category

Will another Kitchen Table Talk change the world?

By Tom Orr on April 10, 2018 / Blog Posts, Food governance

Nourish Scotland, along with other members of the Scottish Food Coalition, have been running a campaign to get people to talk about food over the last couple of months. Whether that’s at big old wooden kitchen tables, smooth and sleek office tables, tables at the allotment or

How can we make the healthy choice the easy choice in Scotland?

By Celia Nyssens on January 31, 2018 / Blog Posts, Food governance, Public health

The Scottish Government’s consultation on their draft Diet and Obesity Strategy – now known as ‘A Healthier Future – Action and Ambitions on Diet, Activity and Healthy Weight’ – closes today. Like most of our colleagues in the third-sector, we at Nourish are broadly supportive of the draft Strategy

A Good Food Nation: For All Our Rights

By Elli Kontorravdis on December 10, 2017 / Blog Posts, Food governance

It’s Human Rights Day, and what a day for the last instalment of our crowdfunding blog series. If you believe everyone has the right to be able to eat well, and that collectively we’re entitled to a fair and sustainable food system then this one’s for you.

A Good Food Nation: For Our Seas

By Olga Bloemen on December 9, 2017 / Blog Posts, Food governance

Nourish Scotland is crowdfunding for our #GoodFoodNation campaign. This week we’ve been publishing a blog every day to tell you more about this campaign and why we think it is so important. This is the second to last blog before the crowdfunder closes tomorrow at midnight. Today:

A Good Food Nation: For all life on earth

By Tom Orr on December 7, 2017 / Agriculture, Blog Posts, Environment, Food governance

Nourish Scotland are crowdfunding right now – seeking support and resources for our Good Food Nation campaign. This is our fourth blog in a series counting down to the closing date of the crowdfunder this Sunday (10th of December). The campaign is about all of us getting a say in deciding the

A Good Food Nation: For Our Communities

By Elli Kontorravdis on December 6, 2017 / Blog Posts, Food governance

Nourish Scotland is crowdfunding for our Good Food Nation campaign. In the countdown to deadline day (11 December) we’ll be publishing a blog every day to make the case that supporting this crowdfunder is a really good idea that you should tell everyone you know about. Today

A Good Food Nation: For our food producers and workers

By Olga Bloemen on December 5, 2017 / Blog Posts, Food governance

Nourish Scotland are crowdfunding right now – seeking support and resources for our Good Food Nation campaign. This is our second blog in a series counting down to the closing date of the crowdfunder this Sunday (11th of December). As we set out in yesterday’s blog, this campaign is about all

A Good Food Nation: For the people, by the people

By Tom Orr on December 4, 2017 / Blog Posts, Food governance

Nourish Scotland are crowdfunding right now – seeking support and resources for our Good Food Nation campaign. In the murky world of working for systemic change, we won’t have a shiny new building to show for your cash, but we do have a really exciting opportunity to

Extinction ’17: What will halt mass extinction?

By Tom Orr on October 10, 2017 / Agriculture, Blog Posts, Climate change, Environment, Food governance, Public health

Last week, academics, NGOs, farmers and other humans converged on London’s prestigious Queen Elizabeth II conference centre. The attraction: an exploration of the disappearance of the natural world – and the creatures great and small that inhabit it. The extinction of species and loss of biodiversity is