{"id":34543,"date":"2018-05-25T08:36:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T13:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34543"},"modified":"2018-05-25T08:36:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T13:36:49","slug":"relocalising-the-food-chain-why-it-matters-and-how-to-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34543","title":{"rendered":"Relocalising the food chain: Why it matters and how to do it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Relocalising the food chain: Why it matters and how to do it<\/a><\/h3>\n
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One of the positive aspects of Britain\u2019s departure from the EU is that it has sparked off a debate on the future of UK farming<\/a>, requiring us to question fundamental assumptions. Should we see food as a commodity for export, or to feed ourselves? What counts as a public good? And can we restructure our food system in a way that meets more of our needs \u2013 nutritional, social and cultural?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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It\u2019s hard to escape the growing interest in local food over the past few decades. Whether it\u2019s restaurants boasting fresh, local produce on their menus, the rise in farmers\u2019 markets and farm shops or the growth of box schemes such as Riverford<\/a>, it\u2019s clear that people value food that comes with a story. Even supermarkets have noticed, as Morrisons credits soaring demand for regional produce<\/a> for its healthy profits last year. In order to understand the movement better, and to see where it might be headed, it is worth exploring the motivations behind it.<\/p>\n

For there is more to \u2018local\u2019 than meets the eye. After all, nobody gets excited about eating bacon from the local intensive pig unit or white sliced bread from the in-store bakery at the supermarket. Instead the term is shorthand for a vision of food characterized by small-scale farming and growing, heritage breeds, artisan processing, family businesses and traditional skills.<\/p>\n

It is also about self-reliance and \u2018taking back control\u2019, in the sense of using what grows locally with a minimum of inputs and rejecting globalization. It is about a sense of connection, which we have traded in for the convenience of the modern food industry, but with mixed feelings, as the Food Standards Authority\u2019s report Good Food for All<\/a> notes.<\/p>\n

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Relocalising the food chain: Why it matters and how to do it One of the positive aspects of Britain\u2019s departure from the EU is that it has sparked off a debate on the future of UK farming, requiring us to question fundamental assumptions. Should we see food as a commodity for export, or to feed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[319,4774,1912,7276,20242,20243,715,716,6867],"class_list":["post-34543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-food","tag-food-chain","tag-food-production","tag-food-systems","tag-jane-powell","tag-relocalisation","tag-self-reliance","tag-self-sufficiency","tag-sustainable-food-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34544,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34543\/revisions\/34544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}