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Some of the best links to use or try our Blog

Food Climate Research Network - one of the best free academic sources of information on food sustainability
Best Foot Forward: one of our favoured footprinters

The British Potato Council – www.potato.org.uk
The Carbon Trust: set up by DEFRA and doing some great work
Centre for Food Policy, City University
DEFRA – www.defra.gov.uk
Food Commission   
Food Ethics Council 
Food Standards Agency – www.foodstandards.gov.uk - not always our friends, we believe they are bias towards industrial agriculture and possibly mislead consumers with some of their advice - but they argue differently, we must be wrong!
Food & Drink Federation
Food Climate Research Centre: If you work with food and care about the planet, and don't know these guys get to know them!
Forum For the Future

Friends of the Earth
Greenpeace - Greeenpeace.org.uk

Horticultural Development Council – www.hdc.org.uk
IGD – www.igd.com
LCA Food Database – www.lcafood.dk
National Consumer Council – www.ncc.org.uk
Not Just Food: helps food businesses become more dynamic & a network of contacts within the food industry
Provenance & East Anglian Food Links - want to debate food with people who know food - ring these guys
Slow Food: gastronomic movement
Soil Association: Information on organic food and farming
Sustain: The Alliance for Food & Farming: a great NGO with some good ideas
Sustain: http://www.sustain.co.uk//categories/About-Us/ definately one the best UK energy efficiency consultants
Sustainable Development Commission
Waste Resources Action Programme – www.wrap.org.uk
World Resources Institute
 
Places to find great food
National Association of Farmers' Retail Markets: find your nearest farmers market.
Big Barn: Search for local produce.
Guild of Fine Food - we really like these guys
London Farmers' Markets
Real Food Festival - the best and most interesting foodie event this side of Bologna
South East Food Group Partnership


Great food reads
The Agricultural Notebook: by Richard J. Soffe
The Atlas of Food: Who Eats What, Where and Why by Erik Millstone and Tim Lang
Bread Matters: The State of Modern Bread and a Definitive Guide to Baking Your Own by Andrew Whitley
British Food, An extraordinary thousand years of history: by Colin Spencer
Complete Illustrated Cookery Course: by Delia Smith - no apologies, it's still a good basic
Cheese: A Visual Guide to 400 Cheeses with 150 Recipes by Juliet Harbutt and Roz Denny (1, Sep 2008)
Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Agriculture (Earthscan Readers Series): by Jules N. Pretty
Eating England: Hattie Ellis
The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter by Peter Singer and Jim Mason
Farm Management Pocketbook: by John Nix
Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal Is Doing to the World by Eric Schlosser
Food for Free: by Richard Mabey
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle
Food Wars: The Battle for Mouths, Minds and Markets by Tim Lang
Ices: The Definitive Guide by Caroline Liddell and Robin Weir
In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating by Michael Pollan
Larousse Gastronomique: The World's Greatest Cookery Encyclopedia originally by Prosper Montagne
Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives by Carolyn Steel
Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio
Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management: by Isabella Beeton - it's fun
Not on the Label: What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate by Felicity Lawrence
The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-food World by Michael Pollan
The Oxford Companion to Food: The gastronome's definitive reference guide by Alan Davidson
Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets by Joanna Blythman
So Shall We Reap: What's gone wrong with the world's food and how to fix it: by Colin Tudge
The Unmanageable Consumer: by Yiannis Gabriel and Tim Lang

There are loads more, phone and we'll point you in the right direction