Buy Local Links

BBC Food Matters - Food miles - Bright and breezy introduction to food miles issues from the BBC, that asks what are the hidden costs of a weekly shop?

Local Food Works - an English site seeking to foster sustainable local food systems, that is full of useful local food case studies, reports and news.

Food Miles reports - from the SAFE Alliance, two groundbreaking reports from 1994 and 1999 that comprehensively illustrate the environmental and social implications of the distance that our food travels, 'from the plough to the plate'. Also other material such as Food Facts and Eating Oil.

Corporate Watch - Corporate Watch is a small independent not-for-profit research and publishing group which undertakes research on the social and environmental impact of large corporations, particularly multinationals.

Ethical Consumer - The UK's only alternative consumer organisation looking at the social and environmental records of the companies behind the brand names

Trade Aid - Their mission is to educate New Zealanders about the structural nature of poverty and to engage in fair trade with community based partner organisations around the world.

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