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Food and Climate Change
Edinburgh Sustainable Food City
• Edible Edinburgh
And This is What we are Working
Towards
• More fresh, healthy and sustainable food
produced and enjoyed
• Fewer people living in poverty
• Our natural environment and resources are
protected and conserved with fewer emissions
• A thriving economy with greater diversity in
local food production and distribution
• A transformed food culture with greater
awareness and skills
Edible Edinburgh Report 2014
Recipe for Success: Good Food Nation
• A children’s Food Policy
– Food and health is now part of the broad general
education
Sustainable Good Food
1. Aiming to be waste free
2. Eating better, and less meat and dairy
3. Buying local, seasonal an environmentally
friendly food
4. Choosing Fair-trade certified products
5. Selecting fish only from sustainable sources
6. Getting the balance right
7. Growing your own, and buying the rest from a
wide range of outlets
Sustain Web site
Relationship between growing,
cooking and eating
Food Growing in Schools Taskforce March 2012
Food Growing in Schools
Taskforce Report 2012
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Six key recommendations
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A national campaign celebrating food growing in schools
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A policy emphasis on food growing in schools
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A food growing in schools online hub
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Business communities to support food growing in schools
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Promotion of food growing by school leadership teams
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Making clear connections between food growing in schools
and food-related and land based careers
Community Empowerment Act
Part 119
Food Growing Strategies
Food and Climate Change
UNFAO
• Globally agriculture generates 30% of manmade emissions of green house gas incl ½ of
methane and ½ of NO2
• In EU 30% of greenhouse gas come from
consumer purchases come from food and
drink
Emissions come from across Food
system
• Transport
• Conversion of land to agriculture
• Energy used to make fertilisers, pesticides &
farm machinery
• Impact of agriculture on the soil (natural
carbon store)
• Food processing
• Refrigeration
Emissions come from across Food
system contd
• Retail
• Domestic use of food
• Waste format at different stages
The Sustain Guide to Good Food
Sustain’s working definition, developed in consultation with our
membership of expert organisations, is that sustainable food – in
other words, good food - should be produced, processed, bought,
sold and eaten in ways that:
• Provide social benefits, such as safe and nutritious products, and
improve people’s experiences of good quality food, for instance by
growing and cooking it, which helps to enrich our knowledge and
skills, and our cultural diversity;
• Contribute to thriving local economies that create good jobs and
secure livelihoods – both in the UK and, in the case of imported
products, in producer countries;
• Enhance the health and variety of both plants and animals (and the
welfare of farmed and wild creatures), protect natural resources
such as water and soil, and help to tackle climate change.
Botanics course March 2017
Feed the Soil, not the Plant
Learn how to make the most of your garden soil.
A beginner’s course that will help you understand
your own garden soil and how to look after it so
that your plants have the best growing conditions.
Students will learn what soil is, how to do basic soil
tests and how improve soil condition and health
through home composting. This course is a mixture
of teaching and practical activities
Gracemount Primary Schools – Food
and Gardening
• Gracemount Primary –
– Green Team
– Outdoor Teachers
– Other classes
• St Catherine’s Primary
– Nursery class ( to embed in curriculum)
– After School Classes – groups of 10 2 food classes
and 10 gardening. Followed by a challenge to
parents
Gracemount Walled Garden
Gracemount Walled Garden July 2016
Gracemount Walled Garden
Gracemount Walled Garden Youth
Group
Climate Change Tool
• Global Calculator