Funders

One Planet Food Fife was a projected started by Falkland Centre for Stewardship and Carnegie UK Trust.

But it depends for its success on building a partnership across all sectors - producers, households, communities, the local authority and health board, retailers, caterers, researchers, agricultural advisors, business and the third sector.

There is no one solution to the problem. Instead, we will need many new 'food connections' in different parts of the food system.

Funding was secured from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation for a participatory research project to develop a credible shared account of the current food system in Fife and beyond and some proposals for change. The research report was published in November 2010.

 

 

Helpful documents from the Big Tent 2010 Summer School on food.

One Planet Food Fife Research (PowerPoint PPT 1.3MB)

Fife Diet (PowerPoint PPT 1MB)

Cream o' Galloway (PowerPoint PPT 5MB)

Food Sovereignty (PowerPoint PPT 7.5MB)

Community Investment (PowerPoint PPT 8.7MB)

Report and feedback on the Summer School by Andrew Guest

27th April 2010
How can Local Authorities help Communities Recover Sustainable Food Systems?

We were asked to give a contribution in this seminar as One Planet Food, and to make it more real and accessible for the Fife Council we focused on the challenges of the food system informed by data we have gathered for the Fife region. We also gave the council practical ideas and propose next steps of what it could be done in order to have a more sustainable food system, within the current climate of budget cuts. As a follow up of the seminar, you may like to check our blog post The Challenges of the Food System: What is the fuss with New Zealand apples?

Seminar Presentation (PowerPoint PPT 1.34MB)

Nourishing Communities Presentation (PowerPoint PPT 195KB)

26 - 27 February 2010
Nourish - the Scottish Sustainable Food Network

The purpose of this event was to gather people from across Scotland with a common interest in local sustainable food to discuss the purpose, structure and priorities of Nourish. We wanted to demonstrate the level of interest in this network and make setting up the network an open and inclusive process.

People came from urban and rural settings across Scotland, and from a range of (mostly small) organisations with a variety of aims. Some people and organisations were focused on community and/or therapeutic gardening : some were involved in local food issues as part of a wider resilience/transition agenda: some were small producers and/or distributors: some were involved in helping low income groups access good food

Report (PDF 924KB)

25th January 2010
Fife Food Policy Session

Fife, Scotland, organised by Fife Council

21st January 2010
Edinburgh, Scotland: Feeding Scotland Responsibly in a Changing World

Conference Programme (PDF 252KB)

Scotland's food system at a crossroads - David Atkinson (PowerPoint PPT 1.6MB)

Global food system: Choices and consequences- Patrick Mulvany (PowerPoint PPT 605KB)

24 - 25th October 2009
Building the Local Food Movement: Scotland's First Annual Local Food Gathering

You can find the report, video and presentations of this event here:

Report (PDF 997KB)

Video

Presentations

One Planet Food: food and farming as if people mattered

One Planet Food was an initiative to encourage a sustainable, healthy and inclusive food culture. Sustainable means eating well but with much less impact on the planet. If everyone ate food the way we do in Scotland, we would need three planets. Whilst funding for this project has ended, a number of informative documents have been left on the website for information.

 

 

 

Edinburgh City Bread Group Advert from WeeFlee Productions on Vimeo.

This is an advert created as an exercise during the One Planet Food Summer School. This project has the potential to start in the near future and it would be a great example of shortening the food supply chain and giving more control to people on how food gets from farm to plate, in other words Food Sovereignty!

Project Idea: A group of households in Edinburgh are developing a project to link local wheat growers to bread production and distribution. They aim to recruit at least 200 households which commit to buying 100 loaves per year. The group will buy suitable wheat, organize cleaning and milling on a farm scale, and commission local artisan bakers to bake for them. One distribution option is a social enterprise using bicycles in partnership with the Grassmarket Mission. The group is also exploring a partnership with a social landlord to ensure that the project is inclusive. Reducing waste and distribution costs will help to keep the bread affordable as well as healthy.

Feeding Scotland Responsibly in a Changing World from WeeFlee Productions on Vimeo.

Check our new video Feeding Scotland Responsibly in a Changing World, which links issues of food security and sustainable food production in Scotland with the global debate on food sovereignty and climate change. Watch also video presentations from our speakers: David Atkinson, Patrick Mulvany, Tom Macmillan, and Patrick Krause. For power point presentations see the links in the left column of this page.

One Planet Food Vision

Our current food system is an example of market failure on a global scale. While we have the technical capacity to feed everyone well while protecting the environment, the system actually delivers massive environmental degradation and injustice along with widespread hunger and obesity.

A radical transformation is both desirable and possible. While our own food choices as citizens should be coherent with a fair and sustainable global food system, these are not sufficient to drive change. Action is needed at regional, national and global level.

We see food as a public good not simply a tradable commodity and we argue for greater democratic control of food production and distribution at community, regional and national level.

One Planet Food works by:

• Providing advice and encouragement to local food initiatives which involve communities in growing food themselves and sourcing it from local producers
• Researching and developing regional policies and projects promoting sustainable food systems
• Influencing national food policy, linking issues of food security and sustainable food production in Scotland with the global debate on food sovereignty and climate change.

What's the problem?

Worldwide, 1 billion people don't have enough to eat. Many of these people live in countries where food is being exported to Scotland and other rich countries. While some of this produce is fairly traded with small-scale farmers who control the means of production, most of the global food system is controlled by a handful of global food companies and is geared towards profit rather than feeding people well.

Our food security in Scotland should not be achieved at the cost of other people's food insecurity.

The way we eat in Scotland is putting pressure on land and water resources, particularly in poorer countries, and contributing to rising levels of greenhouse gases. Around one third of our greenhouse gas emissions are from food.

The way we eat is not great for our health, either. We still eat too much fat and sugar, too much cheap and poor quality meat, and don't eat enough fruit and vegetables.

We also waste nearly a third of the food we buy. We throw away as much salad as we eat. Disposing of food waste to landfill uses energy and produces methane.

The four big grocers in Scotland now control about 71.5% of retail food sales. We import four times more fruit and vegetables than we export and ten times more animal feed. We are not self-sufficient in meat, dairy and eggs.

What's the way forward?

There is no one solution to the problem. Instead, we will need many new approaches in different parts of the food system, and a cultural shift in our attitudes to food.

Community food groups co-operating with producers to source local and low input food, and reducing the number of shopping trips by organising local deliveries, as well as community growing projects.

Public bodies working together to agree 'sustainable food procurement' policies, and enabling groups of local farmers to develop the capacity to supply what's needed, creating new jobs and reducing transport and packaging.

Communities and businesses working together to reduce avoidable food waste and to use unavoidable food waste to generate energy and fertiliser.

Agricultural advisors helping farmers and growers to reduce the environmental impact of their businesses through changes in land management, better use of the fertiliser and renewable energy production.

At national and international level, developing a food sovereignty approach which gives people and communities more control over local and regional food production and distribution and leads to a fairer and more sustainable global food system.