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	Local food - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Local food is also often interpreted as being organic, or produced by farmers who adopt sustainable and humane practices, while non-local food is often seen as a result of corporate management policies, heavy subsidies, poor animal welfare, lack of care for the environment, and poor working conditions.
		As large food corporations and supermarket distribution steadily dominate the organic food market, the concept of local food is increasingly being used by independent farmers, food activists, and consumers to refine the definition of organic food and organic agriculture.
		Also, because local food tends to be fresh (or minimally processed, such as cheese and milk), as opposed to processed food, the bias against processed food is often at least implicit in the local food argument.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Local_food (1896 words)

	Local food Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Those supporting development of local food economy consider that since food is needed by everyone, everywhere, everyday, a small change in the way it is produced and marketed will have great impact on health, ecosystem and cultural diversity preservation.
		Local is often defined in the view of ecology, trying to see food production from the perspective of a basic ecological unit defined by its climate, soil, watershed, species and local agrisystems, unit also called ecoregion.
		Local food is also often interpreted as being organic, or produced by farmers who adopt sustainable and human practices, while non-local food is often seen as a result of corporations, heavy subsidies, poor animal welfare, lack of care for the environment, and poor working conditions.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/local_food.html (1263 words)

	ORBSEARCH.COM \| encyclopedia of knowledge
		Many local food proponents tend to assimilate local food to food produced by local individual farmers, while assimilating non-local food by food produced and transformed by large agribusiness.
		Local food is also often interpreted as being organic food, or food produced by farmers who adopt sustainable and human practices, while non-local food are often seen as encouraging corporations, heavy subsidies, poor animal welfare, lack of care for the environment, and poor working conditions.
		The first impact of a local food system would be to minimize food transport distance, from the farm to the comsumer house, hence reducing the amount of fossil fuel used up and CO2 emissions released in the atmosphere.
	www.orbsearch.com /lo/Local_food_movement.php (1091 words)

	Local food systems
		The project's objectives are to identify food systems that enable UNI and Allen Hospital food buyers to invest their food dollars in Iowa; support Iowa farmers, processors, and distributors; and document the obstacles preventing the establishment of those systems.
		Enshayan and project assistants are learning how food service decision makers at UNI and Allen Hospital operate, what their food and client needs are, and how they make food purchases.
		Although building the producer/buyer/caterer relationships at UNI and Allen Hospital might lead to more local food purchases, Enshayan notes that having a better understanding of local food systems is the real educational outcome of the project.
	www.leopold.iastate.edu /pubs/nwl/1998/1998-1-leoletter/foodsystems.htm (1501 words)

	Local Food News, Bloomington, Indiana, April 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Local food is a resource for focusing on building local food networks, supporting sustainable agriculture and building awareness on living in harmony with nature.
		Local Food supports your right to know what you are consuming and support the choice of consumers being knowledgeable about their food.
		Local food is a resource for building local food networks, supporting sustainable agriculture and growing awareness on living in harmony with nature.
	www.greendove.net /foodnews.htm (3100 words)

	f3 - the local food consultants
		Food transport now accounts for 25 percent of all Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) kilometres in the UK, and consumers travel an average of 898 miles a year by car to shop for food.
		Heads of Catering from 7 of the 10 East of England Local Education Authorities have agreed to work together, with East Anglia Food Link, on a programme of work to increase the use of sustainable and local food in their school meals.
		A three month trial revealed that local food on the menu in Oxfordshire schools can cut costs, benefit the local economy and be better for the environment too.
	www.localfood.org.uk /localfoodnews.htm (1646 words)

	Food and Farm Connections
		Food Alliance Midwest (FAM) is a third-party certification program that uses a certification seal in a public education and consumer awareness campaign to support local farms and foods.
		Our food choices make a difference when we buy from local farmers who are working hard to farm in ways that preserve soil, protect water, and support their natural and human neighbors.
		Food grown in a manner that enhances the health of the people who eat it and the land on which it is grown.
	www.landstewardshipproject.org /foodfarm-main.html (2110 words)

	Scarborough Local Food Group: Scarborough Local Food Guide
		If you know of any independent food producers or retailers in Scarborough and the surrounding area which you think should be in the Scarborough Local Food Guide, please send details to localfood@topfield.org.uk by Friday 9th Septeber 2005.
		To request a copy of the 2nd edition of the Scarborough Local Food Guide, which is free, please send your name and address to localfood@topfield.org.uk.
		If we, the people of Scarborough and Filey, spent just 36p a week on local food (only 10% of the national average weekly spend on fruit and vegetables), £40,000 would be generated for our local economy.
	www.topfield.org.uk /localfood/guide.html (389 words)

	Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy \| For Land, Liberty, Jobs and Justice
		Food First is proud to announce the timely publication of the third edition of our classic book on the roots of the Zapatista rebellion.
		The report, entitled "Going Local on a Global Scale: Rethinking Food Trade in the Era of Climate Change, Dumping, and Rural Poverty," makes the point that 50 percent of the world’s poor and hungry are actually farmers, and argues that addressing global hunger means building small-scale farmers' access to their own local markets.
		The food shortage in North Korea that evolved into a famine in the mid-1990s and persists today was the outcome of multiple factors, including agricultural policy, weather, politics, and economics.
	www.foodfirst.org (1066 words)

	International Society for Ecology and Culture - Local Food (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The globalisation of the food economy, while enriching a small number of giant 'agribusinesses', is undermining the welfare of everyone else.
		Following the general analysis laid out in Bringing the Food Economy Home, this report looks at California's food system from seed to table, accounting for many of the hidden costs of what is often assumed to be a highly successful model - one which is being emulated by other regions and countries around the world.
		The Roadshow outlines both a critique of the globalisation of the food economy and a compelling argument for shortening the distance between farmers and consumers.
	www.isec.org.uk /localfood.html (499 words)

	Food Links UK: Home
		was established in 2002 as a network of organisations active in supporting the local food sector and working towards fairer, healthier more sustainable local food systems.
		All organisations based in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland which support the aims of Food Links UK are invited to join and become active in it is work.
		To act as lead advocate and influencer for the local food sector and its members at a national and European level
	www.foodlinks-uk.org (154 words)

	East Anglia Food Link - forging links for a sustainable local food system in the East of England
		This exciting new partnership project is providing co-ordinated support to Norfolk's local food sector, assisting retailers and caterers in sourcing locally, engaging producers in local supply networks and promoting all sources of local food.
		Heads of Catering from 7 of the 10 East of England Local Education Authorities have agreed to work together, with EAFL, on a programme of work to increase the use of sustainable and local food in their school meals.
		This project is working to research and improve food access in rural Mid and South Bedfordshire, engaging community groups to research their circumstances in relation to food access and devise interventions to improve access to healthy and affordable food.
	www.eafl.org.uk (998 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Local food 'greener than organic'
		Local food is usually more "green" than organic food, according to a report published in the journal Food Policy.
		Consumers should make ethical choices about the food that they buy, and supermarkets should be open with customers about where their food is coming from.
		Food is moved from British suppliers to centralised supermarket depots, then back to the branches, so even if something appears to be local, then it may in fact have travelled up and down the country to reach you.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/sci/tech/4312591.stm (1494 words)

	Life begins at thirty: 10 Reasons to Eat Local Food
		By eating with the seasons, we are eating foods when they are at their peak taste, are the most abundant, and the least expensive.
		Food with less distance to travel from farm to plate has less susceptibility to harmful contamination.
		When a farmer is producing food that will not travel a long distance, will have a shorter shelf life, and does not have a high-yield demand, the farmer is free to try small crops of various fruits and vegetables that would probably never make it to a large supermarket.
	fogcity.blogs.com /jen/2005/08/10_reasons_to_e.html (1201 words)

	food (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Food is boiled constantly and the risk of food poisoning is lower.
		Food prices can be staggering in the supermarkets and traditional markets in some areas (prices also vary widely across major cities).
		Local foods generally being sweetened with fats (the preferred flavoring is pork fat) and spiced with anise, soy sauce, salt, ginger and fl pepper.
	users2.ev1.net /~turton/food.html (3471 words)

	Local Food Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Local Food Works exists to foster sustainable local food systems through the development of local food networks.
		School dinners using local food bring benefits, but there isn’t enough for everyone
		Local Food Works is a partnership project between the Soil Association and the Countryside Agency:
	www.localfoodworks.org (145 words)

	Oklahoma Food Cooperative - Local Food, Local Farmers - Farmer's Market, Natural, organic, health, sustainable, locally ...
		The Oklahoma Food Cooperative offers FREE home delivery to members who are disabled or ill, in Oklahoma City (within the city limits only), Edmond, Moore, Norman, and Tulsa.
		There we were, minding our bidness, having fun at the February Delivery Day of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative, when in walks three nice looking fellows from the State Department of Agriculture, Food, and Foresty meat inspection compliance department, in search of FELONIOUS chickens.
		Note: You must be a member of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative and a resident of Oklahoma to purchase food through the Cooperative.
	www.oklahomafood.org (406 words)

	Local Food Policy Subcommittee
		Resolution 90, 2005-06 (326KB PDF), 'Establishing a Food Council for Dane County', was introduced July 21, 2005 to help implement the recommendations of the subcommittee.
		Dane County has a vibrant and complex food system that encompasses the many social, political, economic, and environmental relationships between food producers, processors, and consumers.
		The Local Food Policy Advisory Subcommittee's charge is to explore, review, and develop strategies to strengthen the local food system and economy.
	www.co.dane.wi.us /committees/foodpolicy (340 words)

	f3- the local food consultants
		Enabling innovation and enterprise in the local food sector.
		We are consultants, providing research, training and consultancy on local food, to public and private sector clients throughout the UK.
		We are offering four new courses covering local food infrastructure, funding and investment, local procurement for the hospitality sector, and collaboration.
	www.localfood.org.uk (233 words)

	SUSTAIN : Home
		Most food production, distribution and consumption is in every sense of the word unsustainable, this project aims to address these problems.
		Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, promote equity and enrich society and culture.
		The only way to save local fishing industry jobs is to stop eating fish — unless you can be sure it’s been caught by British fishermen using sustainable methods, argues a report published today by Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.
	www.sustainweb.org (761 words)

	FoodShare
		At FoodShare we work on food issues "from field to table" - meaning that we focus on the entire system that puts food on our tables: from the growing, processing and distribution of food to its purchasing, cooking and consumption.
		Public education on food security issues is a big part of our mandate: we create and distribute resources, organize training workshops and facilitate of networks and coalitions.
		We believe that food is vital to the health of individuals and communities, and that access to good, healthy food is a basic human right.
	www.foodshare.net (161 words)

	International Society for Ecology and Culture - Local Food (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Roadshow presentations are available at nominal cost to environmental groups, food safety activists, farm organisations, local government bodies, civic organisations, church groups, schools and universities, and other community bodies.
		Although most Local Food Roadshows have been presented by ISEC staff, we are also running training workshops to enable committed volunteers to present the Roadshow in their own communities.
		Contact us if you are interested in hosting a Roadshow event, displaying the Local Food posters in your community, or attending a training workshop.
	www.isec.org.uk /diaryroadshowdesc.html (226 words)

	University of Northern Iowa Local Food Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Connecting institutional food buyers to nearby farms and processors
		Assisting local independent food and farm businesses better communicate their positive impacts in the local economy
		Find locally grown food in Black Hawk and neighboring counties
	www.uni.edu /ceee/foodproject (96 words)

	Seven Steps to Organizing a Local Food Not Bombs
		Once you have made the decision to start a local Food Not Bombs group, talk to some other people you know who might be interested in working with you.
		The first places to approach are the local food co-ops and health food stores.
		We only prepare food which is strictly from vegetable sources so people will always know and trust Food Not Bombs food has this standard whenever they come to our table.
	home.earthlink.net /~foodnotbombs/seven.html (1402 words)

	The State and Local Food Policy Project - Drake University Agricultural Law Center
		Food Policy Councils convene citizens and government officials for the purpose of providing a comprehensive examination of a state or local food system.
		State and Local Food Policy Councils are playing a role in building a better food system - strengthening food democracy.
		In accordance with Federal law and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Drake University and the USDA Risk Management Agency are prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability.
	www.statefoodpolicy.org (308 words)

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