Nottinghamshire Farmstart feasibility studyMay – September 2023 This pioneering work (commissioned by Nottinghamshire County Council) has now reached the end of phase 1 with the submission of the Urban Agricultrue Consortium’s feasibility study. For now, the exciting thing to report is that this work has generated a lot of interest and momentum, and various offers of land, […]
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Next UAC PING – Tuesday 17 October 2023 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-common-partnerships-council-farms-agroecological-food-sovereignty-tickets-722635451087?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Jeremy Iles has started a new role with Royal Holloway, University of London, as part of an exciting Oral History of the Environmental Movement. Started September 2022. More details here. www.rhul.ac.uk/ohem for more info email Jeremy.Iles@rhul.ac.uk
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PING #5 – Policy Influencers Network Group. Session no.5. Wednesday 21st September – 14.00-16.30 Food Hubs – essential infrastructure for the new food economy. This September we are collaborating with the Open Food Network to spread the word about the transformative potential of food hubs to our ever widening policy influencers network. Nick Weir and
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WING # 2 – Weds 8th June, 14.00 – 16.00 Our second annual Wider Interest Network Group (WING) is coming up on 8 June (14.00). The WING is a chance to find out more about the background to the Urban Agriculture Consortium, to hear about our Year 2 evaluation, and to change the pace of
Progress and forthcoming eventsMany thanks to everyone who helped us develop the Urban Agriculture Consortium’s ever evolving networks in 2021. We look forward to more collaboration and progress in 2022. Is 2022 the year for an urban agroecology breakthrough? Quite possibly. There is growing awareness of the immediacy of the climate, biodiversity and health emergencies. This is
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“Now is a great time to be pushing for regenerative agriculture and localised (and decarbonised) supply chains – the spotlight has been shone!” (Brighton & Hove Food P-ship. UAC 1 yr gathering). We are really pleased to report that the Evaluation of our 1st year has been very positive! It was a light touch process
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The Survivors will be Bioregional There is a real hunger for honesty about the predicament we are in and the need for viable pathways into the future… Maddy recently joined a Bioregional Practitioners Forum, led by Isabel Carlisle, founder of the UK Bioregional Learning Centre https://bioregion.org.uk/projects/ This is the beginning of an inquiry for UAC
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Now is the time for WECA to take on the future of food in the region. The West of England mayoral elections, and the appointment of Dan Norris (Lab) as the first elected mayor for the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) overtly committed to biodiversity and local food, heralds a new era of opportunity
‘The Glasgow Declaration pledges to accelerate the development of integrated food policies as a key tool in the fight against climate change, commits local authorities to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from urban and regional food systems in accordance with the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals, and calls on national governments and international institutions
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