Posts Tagged: sustainable food

It has been a hectic couple of weeks since the European Parliament voted to ambitiously reform the EU’s Fisheries policy. Now the dust is settling it is time to take stock of what we achieved and what we still need to do to convert this major step forward into meaningful fisheries reform. Perhaps the most [...]

This month, after 15 years of anticipation, the Peruvian government has finally created Güeppí Sekime National Park and two communal reserves, Airo Pai and Huimeki. This is a massive conservation win – not just for WWF-Peru and the government department for protected areas (SERNANP), but for the Putumayo river basin and, most importantly, the 30 [...]

With its medal-winning hand-held camera work, Oana and I have created this whistle-stop, sustainability-spotting guide to a few of the green features at the London 2012 Olympic park and village. If you have your own images and videos of anything that impressed you – or disappointed you – at the ‘greenest Games ever’, do tell [...]

Over the last 20 years oil palm has emerged as a wonder crop – providing copious quantities of palm oil as an ingredient in everything from soap to biscuits. But at what cost to the environment? I’ve come to Gabon, in western Central Africa, to see what’s happening here. Palm oil production has already cleared [...]

The Which? Conversation blog are having a debate about the future of food and I’ve joined in by writing a blog post for it: “For several years now, leading scientists have been talking about a ‘perfect storm’ in around 2030, as pressures from increasing human demands for food, fresh water and energy place increasing stresses [...]

It’s great news that the UK government has held a hunger summit. And, if rumours are to be believed, hunger will also be the focus of its G8 presidency. Eradicating hunger is easier than we think: we can feed the world and leave room for nature. We already produce enough to feed eight billion people. So, [...]

Are you in the tuna business, but chasing a red herring? The current reputation wins through moving to different fishing technologies are taking centre stage, with the potential to prevent us from locking on to the pursuit of more rounded solutions. Many of the tuna species – the Atlantic, Southern and Pacific bluefin, Bigeye, Yellowfin, and [...]

For those of you lucky enough to have tickets for the Games, or just planning to be glued to your telly for the next few weeks, we thought we’d point out some of the green highlights to look out for in-between the sporting endeavours. Your guide today is David Stubbs, who’s led the London Organising [...]

Will we get a traffic light label any time soon to inform us on how nutritious and environmentally-friendly the food is on the high street? Yes, as soon as pigs fly, and when these flying pigs are gorging on forest-protecting animal feed. A panel earlier this week didn’t quite get to flying pigs, but we [...]

DEFRA’s Green Food Project (GFP), launched today, states it’s the start of a process that hopes to steer the UK food system to a sustainable future, where it remains a world leader in producing high-quality food. Food that contributes to a healthy population and conserves the natural environment. We completely agree with those aims, but [...]