Discussion Series: Food and the Environment
This discussion paper focuses on food and the environment and how it can contribute to the delivery of a just transition to a better food system.
The Scottish Government has set out its ambition that Scotland becomes a Good Food Nation, a country where people from every walk of life take pride and pleasure in, and benefit from, the food they buy, serve, and eat day by day. To deliver this vision the government will launch a consultation on a Good Food Nation Bill during 2017. As part of this process, it has committed to drawing on the expertise of civic society to develop and implement its good food policy.
This discussion paper has been produced by the Soil Association Scotland and RSPB Scotland as part of our work with the Scottish Food Coalition. We believe the Good Food Nation
Bill has the potential to deliver real change in the food system; one that delivers high levels of well-being, social justice and environmental stewardship now and for future generations. This discussion paper focuses on food and the environment and how it can contribute to the delivery of a just transition to a better food system. Following on from the Scottish Food Coalition’s publication, Plenty: Food Farming and Health in a New Scotland, this is one of a series of discussion papers which explores cross-cutting issues relating to food, forming part of the Scottish Food Coalition’s contribution to a national Good Food Conversation.