The Tracing Paper’s twittered morsels of food news, views and more (follow @tracingpaper on Twitter):
- Retailers signed up to Courtauld Commitment to reduce grocery waste by 5% by Dec 2012 have only managed 0.4% so far http://t.co/a7fKa2SU #
- Tesco drops 2007 promise to put carbon labels on 50,000 own-brand products (“a revolution in green consumption”) http://t.co/1scrRDRP #
- Feeding the world: “Problem not supply side. Problem is access to food” – FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva http://t.co/rUu9sARg #
- RT @DefraSusDev: Power in agriculture: Tara Garnett of FCRN on study into economic, political and resource power in world agriculture ht … #
- A Growing Trade: rise of new urban market gardener making money out of hunger for ultra-local food http://t.co/HjgfhPmc via @LondonFoodLink #
- RT @DefraSusDev: Virtuous circles for sustainable food: arguing for circular approach to replace unsustainable linear production systems … #
- Colin Tudge calls for invisible hand on tiller of farming – “disciples of Adam Smith would welcome small farms” http://t.co/0CSZ2Gs0 #orfc12 #
- Professor (now sir) Bob Watson focuses on food waste to ease production pressures – & non-/monetary value of ecosystems http://t.co/sXmAfeSo #
- Who’s to blame for supermarket rejection of ugly fruit and vegetables? asks @the_ecologist http://t.co/7HhpSpxF #
- Eat more plants: Mark Bittman argues for semi-veganism http://t.co/YAAyJi7R #
- Total ethical sales up 9% but organic food and drink down 10%, according to Co-op’s 2011 ethical consumerism report http://t.co/hHomNtHW #
- “Supporting local/British producers most important ethical criteria (48%) when choosing grocery products” http://t.co/ZMRuqOHm IGD again #
- IGD’s 10 food industry trends for 2012: collaborative consumption in at #3, cradle to cradle thinking #7 http://t.co/IgnbjHXL #
- RT @DefraSusDev: Cutting discards for more sustainable fisheries: Defra’s work on management, consumption, small scale fishing http://t. … #
- RT @FoodSafariUK: Snack on that! Are insects the future of food? – Green Living – The Ecologist http://t.co/Ws2k8w2C #
- Easy on the poppy seeds: EU risk assessor raises alarm over morphine exposure from foods http://t.co/08583pp5 #
- “UK now farmed at rate of 5,263 beef sandwiches/hectare, compared to 2,439 bsp/h in 18th century”: IGD chief economist http://t.co/z3Vv17rv #
- Sainsbury’s pledges to double amount of British food sold by 2020, part of £billion ’20 by 20 Sustainability Plan’ http://t.co/RrbGdC4W #
- “Helping politicians take tough decisions”: Bishop of London on @Feeding5k (“an acted parable”), solar cathedrals… http://t.co/F4A2mSNv #
- Feeding the 5,000 returns to Trafalgar Square on 18 Nov: a “free feast of Biblical proportions” made of waste food http://j.mp/q4BFDh #
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