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µThe principal aim of the
Outlook Tower (1906) was
to restore the relationship
between individuals and
their urban and
geographical space, their
historical heritage, and the
universal body of knowledge
accumulated by men.¶
 today we will touch briefly on:
‡ Why ¢
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‡ Global food systems : what¶s the problem?
‡ City-region food alternatives: what¶s the
potential?
‡ Try and think about these issues in terms of
place, proximity, intimacy, immediacy & scale.
We should also take a wider view and try and
listen and re-think concepts like µquality¶
µefficiency¶ µcost¶ µvalue¶ and µmeaning¶.
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 ÷ife Diet 2007-2010
‡ The project started in October 2007 and has run
as a voluntary network growing from 14 member
to 1200+ in that period
‡ Spent a year eating food exclusively from ÷ife
‡ Now encouraging wider membership and inviting
people to find their own level building up to a
80/20 model
‡ We hold talks around food hosted by people in
their own communities - ongoing through 2010
‡ Began to map the region for producers and
develop and strengthen our network
‡ This is cultural reclamation of Scottish food
culture
‡ This is action research allied to policy action and
community development
‡ We view this as explicitly part of the wider
transition movement which itself is part of the
environmental justice movement and the food
sovereignty movement
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 The Scottish Government has announced its intention to legislate
for an 80% reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 -
probably the most ambitious climate change abatement programme
in the world. It should be cheered to the echo for that commitment -
but it's one it cannot possibly reach without changing fundamentally
the way we produce, process and distribute our food.

- Hugh Raven
‡ So what is our methodology and what is our
concept of the bioregion?
 Seasonality = Living within Limits

‡ Key skills«cooking, bottling, pickling, storing etc

‡ Breakthrough skill is not in the kitchen but in the

head

‡ The idea of µlimitless choice¶ is endemic

‡ The idea of µenough¶ is resurgent (enough

information, enough stuff, enough television,
enough food, enough children, enough time)?
‡ Landshare
‡ SAGE
‡ Growing Communities
‡ Wellfehd
‡ Welsh ÷ood Co-ops
‡ Grofun
‡ Nourish
‡ Isle of Bute
‡ Skye ÷ood Links
‡ Suffolk Diet
‡ Norfolk Diet
‡ Cornish Diet
‡ Munster Menu
 Scottish Climate Change Bill
* at least 80% cuts of all greenhouse gases (on 1990 levels) by 2050

* a 2020 target of at least 42% reduction in greenhouse gases

* include the full effects of emissions from international aviation and shipping
from the start
* requires ministers to report on consumption-based emissions - i.e.
emissions produced anywhere in the world that result from Scotland's
consumption of goods and services

* a strong duty on all public bodies to make a full contribution to tackling

climate change and

* strong energy efficiency measures to tackle fuel poverty and save energy
2. Some
Problems with
Global ÷ood
Systems
‡ Pork - exports 195,000 tonnes / imports 240,000 tonnes

‡ Lamb - exports 102,000 tonnes / imports 47,000 tonnes

‡ Butter exports 49,000 tonnes / imports 47,000 tonnes

‡ Poultry exports 170,000 tonnes / imports 363,000 tonnes

‡ ÷resh Milk exports 119,000 tonnes / imports 114,000 tonnes

‡ Live Pigs exports 110,000 pigs / imports 200, 000 pigs

Source: The Absurd UK ÷ood Swap¶ quoting Caroline Lucas µRelocalising Europes ÷ood Supply (2001)
‡ £9 billion: the annual cost of food miles to the UK, including time lost
from congestion, road wear and tear, ill health from pollution and noise,
and road crashes.Source: Department for Environment, ÷ood and Rural Affairs 2005

‡ 898: the average number of miles we drive to shop for food each year,
compared with 747 in 1992. Source: Department for Environment, ÷ood and Rural Affairs
2005

‡ 25%: the percentage of food transport delivered by HGVs on British

roads. (Source: Department for Environment, ÷ood and Rural Affairs 2005)

‡ 15%: the estimated HGV mileage due to drivers getting lost.

‡ (Source: Telford and Wrekin Council)
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3. Behaviour
Change, Limits
and Longing, ÷ood
maps and
mapping
‡ Institutions re-localising

‡ Innovation in what we grow

‡ Councils responding and showing leadership

‡ Closed-loop systems (ie waste, fuel, compost)

‡ Land being shared and worked collectively

‡ Better food, better connected communities

‡ ÷ocusing only on behaviour change (individualistic)

‡ Maintain within a small self-selecting group

‡ Retain µlocal food¶ as a premium benefitting only a small group of specialist

producers

‡ No innovation of agricultural policy

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 What are we doing (÷ife Diet)?

‡ Burntisland & ÷alkland Community Gardens and allotments

‡ Innovate new growing: Quinoa (keen - wa)
‡ Wholesaling Oats & wheat
‡ Popularisation and mainstreaming: 80 / 20
‡ Bread Club & ÷ood Hubs
‡ Publish and communicate: new / social media (twitter, facebook,
website, e-newsletter) local cookery booklets, seasonal growing &
cooking calendar
‡ Working with schools and colleges
‡ Expanding the ÷ife Diet model
 Social policy implications at Scottish level?

‡ Trade Barriers / controls: shift from export led growth targets

‡ Enforce enlightened public procurement policy
‡ Engage mass conversion to organic methods
‡ Develop horticultural / agricultural training, education & apprenticeships
‡ Planning: controls of supermarkets
‡ Complete ban on GM
‡ Large-scale urban agriculture
‡ Engage the concept of food sovereignty
‡ Change work patterns: three day week