Food Issues: Fair Trade
Fair trade is a social movement to encourage sustainability and empower the producers of goods from developing nations. The movement promotes fair wages and conditions for workers, raising awareness of marginalized producers of goods, and changing the rules of conventional international trade...read more
Food Issues: Food & Sustainability
Until quite recently, farming had not changed much for thousands of years. Human and animal power was responsible for tilling the soil and harvesting crops, and nearly all food was produced in close proximity to where it was consumed...read more
Food Communities
A food community consists of all those working in the food sector-from production of ingredients to promotion of end products-whose products are of excellent quality and produced sustainably. It is connected to a specific geographical area from a historical, social, economic and cultural point of view...read more
Links
Food Links
An evolving list of useful websites with information on sustainable food systems, food access, and a shared culture of food in conflict prevention and resolution.