The Local Food Revolution from Quito to Cupar

WELCOME TO FOOD REVOLT
Kinghorn, Fife, Scotland 12 November 2011

Fife Diet
http://www.fifediet.co.uk/

Reporting the Local Food Revolution:
From Quito to Cupar

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Carbon Food / Myths of Scarcity / Transition WALMART? /
Food & Health/ Restored Communities / Tyranny of Choice

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CARBON & FOOD

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CARBON & FOOD

Estimates of UK food-related climate emissions had put the figure at 20% of total UK consumption emissions. 2009 Report 'How Low Can We Go' includes land use change in overseas countries, such as deforestation driven by our demand for food, the figure jumps to 30 per cent.

Flying 1kg of asparagus from California to UK uses 900 times more energy than a seasonal home-grown equivalent.

The amount of sulphur oxide from the 15 largest ships equals the combined amount from all the cars in the world

How Low Can We Go? http://assets.wwf.org.uk/downloads/how_low_can_we_go.pdf

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CARBON & FOOD

UK Food & Drink production emissions is 100 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent (Source: How Low Can We Go? Assessing the UK's food emissions, 2009)

UK Food & Drink consumptions emissions is 139.2 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent (Source: How Low Can We Go? Assessing the UK's food emissions, 2009)

Overseas land use change driven by UK consumption is 230.8 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent

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MYTHS OF FOOD SCARCITY

"The world must increase food production or there will be mass starvation."

The present food crisis - in which nearly a billion people are going hungry - is used as proof of the food scarcity plaguing the planet.

The reality is that people are going hungry today not because there is not enough food, but because they are poor and can't afford food

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TRANSITION WALMART?

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TRANSITION WALMART

Four supermarkets (Tesco, Asda/Wal-mart, Sainsbury and Somerfield) control 75% of UK food retailing

In Britain a new Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsbury's or Asda opens every other day.

In 1960 small independent retailers had a 60% share of the food retail market. By 2000, their share was reduced to 6%.

The UK Cold Chain is responsible for approx 15% of total food chain emissions (Garnett, 2007)

Six processors control 93% of UK dairy processing and six supermarkets control 65% of liquid milk sales.

Just two companies Rank Hovis (part of Tomkins PLC) and Archer Daniels Midland Milling account for more than 50% of bread flour milled in the UK.

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TRANSITION WALMART

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FOOD AND HEALTH

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BAD FOOD SCOTLAND

Around one quarter of all cancers are estimated to be avoidable through appropriate food, nutrition and physical activity

Total cost to NHS Scotland related to poor diet 420m projected cost to Scotland by 2050 970 m (Foresight Report 2007)Obesity in children is now common. In Scotland nearly 1 in 5 (18%) boys and over one in ten (14%) girls aged 2-15 are obese.

Scotland has one of the highest levels of obesity among OECD countries second only to the USA.

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FOOD & HEALTH
What might a Scottish five a day look like? (summer)

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FOOD & HEALTH
What might a Scottish five a day look like? (autumn/winter)

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COMMUNITIES RESTORED
East Kilbride, Skye, Moffat, Toryglen

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BLASDA: Scotland's local food feast

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BURNTISLAND'S FOOD GARDEN

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GLASGOW HARVEST

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SOUTH UIST

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GREEN NEW DEAL

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BEYOND THE TYRANNY OF CHOICE

What is going to help create local seasonal food is a shift in our metric

from desperate craving to taste and pleasure
from weekly shopping to daily shopping
from convenience to savouring the experience
from high-tech to spade and dung
from global to local
from local to neighbourhood
from highly processed to fresh, raw and simply cooked
from infinite choice to seasonality
from fast food to slow food
from food experts to food for everyone
from chefs to ccoks
from community gardens to community agriculture

and a shift in our planning and infrastructure to allow

tight restrictions on supermarkets
large-scale restructuring of urban space (from parks and gardens to allotments)
but more crucially urban agriculture

Until recently, anyone who suggested nationalising the banks would have been derided as a quack and a crank, as lacking the most basic understanding of the functioning of a complex, globalised world. The grip of orthodoxy disqualified the idea, and many more, without the need even to offer a counter-argument.

Our 6 Pledges for Low Carbon Sustainable Food

Eat local (defined bio-regionally)

Eat less meat

Eat more organic

Reduce food waste

Compost More

Grow some food

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PERPETUAL PROGRESS

ENDLESS CHOICE

ASSUMED STABILITY

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EAT THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO BE

Fife Diet

Food & Climate Change in Scotland 2007-2011

Presentation for Richard Lochhead MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Environment

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Director, Fife Diet

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Food & Climate Change in Scotland 2007-2011

Presentation for Richard Lochhead MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Environment

August 2011


Mike Small
Director, Fife Diet