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News

 

29 Jan 11

FeRN AGM - 16th March

FeRN Lincs is kindly hosting the national FeRN AGM on 16th March 2011 at the amazing Uncle Henry’s Farm Shop, on the A15 north of Lincoln. Starting at 11am with FeRN Lincs’ own AGM the agenda includes speaker Rev Canon Alan Robson,
Lincolnshire’s agricultural chaplain and lunch, and the opportunity to check out the farm shop and educational resource.

 

25 Jan 11

HGCA FarmHouse Breakfast Week

East Essex Food and Farming Group are busy with FarmHouse Breakfast Week on Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 January. Janet Thorogood and the team are at Bradwell Primary School on Tuesday and Collingwood School on Wednesday - go shake up your wake up

 

24 Jan 11
HGCA FarmHouse Breakfast Week
FeRN-Warks is ready to shake-up your wake-up at the Jersey Building in Stoneleigh Park on Wed 26th January in aid of ARC Addington and RABI - everyone welcome to come along.

 

Resources

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Sustainability and UK Food Policy 2000-2011

Sustainable Development Commission, March 2011

 

SDC report on food matters, to the Governments of the UK, reviewing the growth of UK policy during the 2000s to 2011.  It covers the lifetime of the SDC and assesses the current state of thinking in relation to the challenges ahead.

Foresight: The Future of Food and Farming (2011), executive summary

The Government Office for Science, London

January 2011
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