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		<title>The &#8216;Conventionalisation&#8217; of Organic Production</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the latest edition of the Ecologist Sir Julian Rose, pioneering organic farmer and owner of the Hardwick Estate, asks if organic farming has “sold out and lost its way”. Rose argues that organic production has gone from being the practical manifestation of an ecological and social movement to a marketing opportunity for the supermarkets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agroecology and Environmental Approaches to Agriculture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week Provenance was invited to attend a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food for Development (APPG). The subject of the meeting was agroecology, a systems approach to agriculture born of ecology and taking into account sustainability, resilience and equity as well as production.
The speakers, Prof. Martin Wolfe, Patrick Mulvany, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://provenancesupply.co.uk/2010/03/agroecology-and-environmental-approaches-to-agriculture/</link>
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		<title>ECCE-Bio: A network of European organic producer co-operatives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As well as being one of the founding partners of Provenance, I&#8217;m also a director of ECCE-Bio, a network of European organic producer co-operatives. The network has taken some time to find its feet &#8211; not helped by the current economic climate &#8211; but is beginning to make contact with other farmer groups, CSOs and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://provenancesupply.co.uk/2010/02/ecce-bio-a-network-of-european-organic-producer-co-operatives/</link>
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		<title>Relaunch of Defra’s SD Scene: reporting news and progress in sustainable development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Provenance is proud to have worked with Defra&#8217;s Sustainable Development Programme on the relaunch of SD Scene, an e-newsletter reporting the latest news and progress in sustainable development, from across government and from local, regional, national and international businesses and organisations. 
Provenance has also developed a new website for SD Scene. Sitting within the Sustainable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://provenancesupply.co.uk/2010/02/sd-scene-relaunch/</link>
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		<title>Provenance wishes you a delicious Christmas</title>
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Best wishes for a delicious Christmas and a fruitful New Year from William, Josiah and Nick at Provenance.
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		<link>http://provenancesupply.co.uk/2009/12/delicious-christmas/</link>
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		<title>What Is Sustainability?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://provenancesupply.co.uk/2009/10/what-is-sustainability/</link>
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		<title>Opening up wider markets for a local artisan producer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peachey’s Preserves is an artisan producer of jellies, chutneys, relishes and savoury jams and marmalades:
I make all my preserves by hand in Pulham Market, Norfolk, following family recipes, creating new recipes and using the finest own-grown, wild and local produce. My latest seasonal speciality is a tart crab apple and chilli jelly, made with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://provenancesupply.co.uk/2009/10/peacheys-preserves-website/</link>
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		<title>Forgotten vegetables</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems we have forgotten about eating some of the most delicious seasonal vegetables &#8211; or maybe the multiples have not bothered to put them on their shelves. Sprout tops, turnip tops and kale. You can find some kale around, the trendy one is Cavolo Nero, but they can be hard to find: black and green kale [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://provenancesupply.co.uk/2009/10/forgotten-vegetables/</link>
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		<title>Reducing waste to feed the world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://provenancesupply.co.uk/2009/09/reducing-waste-feeding-the-world/</link>
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		<title>The Jevons Paradox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent conversation with Stuart Orr, a friend from WWF International, the topic of water management and the value of water footprinting came up. In particular we talked about the localised impacts of basin and watershed management and the indicators, incentives, sanctions and technologies that could and are being employed to effect positive changes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://provenancesupply.co.uk/2009/09/the-jevons-paradox/</link>
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