Following on from the Scottish Government’s Good Food Nation consultation, the Scottish Food Commission has now released an interim report. It introduces a refreshed vision statement, outlines the use of indicators to monitor progress in key areas of food policy and announces plans for “creating a movement
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By Bella Crowe Over the last few days, we’ve been hearing about why people farm: “You can live without so many things in this world, all this technology, but you cannot live without food. That’s why I farm”, Camara Mohamed from Mali. We’ve also heard about the
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Traditionally government grant funding for food processing, marketing and co-operation have been taken up by larger producers, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but has often not left any space for smaller producers, who haven’t been able to galvanise the resources to apply, as they are often
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Nourish’s director Pete Ritchie has been invited to take part in the newly established Food Commission. May sees the second meeting of the Commission which has been tasked with advocating for the Good Food Nation policy and advising Scottish Government on how to implement it. Chaired by
Read more →FAO hosted a two-day International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition in September 2014 and has now published a final report. At the symposium experts and advocates debated Agroecology, an emerging set of practices that seek to apply ecological concepts and principles to the design
Read more →Nourish, who is supporting Glasgow and Edinburgh in their work to become sustainable food cities, welcomes the joint pledge of the two city councils on food poverty. The pledge was issued on 27 February by the leaders of Edinburgh and Glasgow City Councils who are committed to
Read more →We are excited to be running the pioneering New Farmer Programme again in 2016 – a vocational training and work placement programme for anyone wanting to develop their food growing, local marketing and small business skills. The programme is delivered by growers and farmers running successful local
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