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What Is Sustainability?

By , Friday, October 23rd, 2009

I keep hearing the “Sustainability” word used a lot to describe an aspiration for the sort of food that people would like to buy. There is no definition of sustainability apart from the thee columns that are supposed to support the concept: environmental, economic and social. For many years the economic criteria has been use [...]

Reducing waste to feed the world

By , Friday, September 25th, 2009

The world is already producing more than double the food we actually consume: we don’t need another Green Revolution, just to eliminate profligate waste.