SCA News: Food & farming

Salmon farming reflections

by Anne MacLennan Skye's Scottish Salmon Think-Tank (SST-T) recently joined the Coastal Communities Network, a community-led network of local groups ‘committed to the preservation and safeguarding of Scotland’s coastal and marine environments’. Formed in 2017 with...

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ReRoot Food morsels

by Anne MacLennan ReRoot is about Working together to create a more connected, healthy, sustainable and resilient  food economy in Broadford and beyond. Here are some reasons that this is important. Health and prosperity Two major reports published in October and...

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Fish farming

by Anne MacLennan In November, the ReRoot film club watched  Until the end of the World, a disturbing look at fish farming and its impacts in Europe, Africa and Antarctica. The film maker visited farms, feed-processing facilities and  local communities. He discovered...

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Is it Food?

by Anne MacLennan A monolithic global industrial food system has emerged since the 1980s according to this paper. Western food culture is dominated by packaged, ready-to-consume products, which are now rapidly displacing traditional dietary patterns in lower income...

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