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Bring Back the Fish – Bring Back Scotland’s Inshore Limit

Bring Back the Fish – Bring Back Scotland’s Inshore Limit

Our Seas is a growing coalition of 128 coastal businesses, fishermen’s organisations, community groups, fisheries trusts and eNGOs, campaigning for an urgent overhaul in the way Scotland’s inshore fisheries are managed.

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1536 864 Ailsa McLellan
The Road From Paris to Glasgow is Through The Farm Gate!

The Road From Paris to Glasgow is Through The Farm Gate!

From the deadly heatwaves in Canada to devastating deluges hitting northern Europe, from raging forest fires in Siberia to record-breaking rainfall in China. It has been plain to see that nobody and nowhere is immune to the changing climate.

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1536 864 Emma Whitham
Looking to the future with the Highland Good Food Conversation

Looking to the future with the Highland Good Food Conversation

Covid has highlighted how vulnerable we are to global shocks owing to our dependency on remote resources and undemocratic corporations, long supply chains and a more-or-less regulated free market economy to supply us with what we need to live.

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1536 864 Nicholas Gubbins
What’s Your Food Story?

What’s Your Food Story?

In this podcast from Highland Good Food Conversation, Emma Whitham chats to six people from across the Highlands to find out their food story – both before and during the Covid-19 crisis. How have their shopping habits changed?

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1536 864 Highland Good Food Conversation
Helmsdale Kitchen Garden Rise to the Challenge

Helmsdale Kitchen Garden Rise to the Challenge

In times of crisis, the importance of community groups is highlighted, and while the coronavirus pandemic has had a seismic impact on each and every individual, the strength of the community has shone through.

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1536 864 Mary Stewart - Helmsdale & District Development Trust
Life Under Lockdown on the Isle of Mull

Life Under Lockdown on the Isle of Mull

There have been many positives in the Covid 19 crisis. Groups and individuals across the island very quickly came together to organise all sorts of help to each other and in particular the shielding and the vulnerable amongst the population.

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1536 864 Hazel Cowe - Mull and Iona Community Trust
Urgent Need for a Fair Food System

Urgent Need for a Fair Food System

COVID-19, along with Brexit and climate change underline the urgent need for a fair food system – fair for people, planet and producer. Economic hardship and food shortage are likely to get much worse before they get better.

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1536 864 Suzy Russell - Community Supported Agriculture
The Great Pause

The Great Pause

Abruptly with no warning the world was forced to pause. Although the sadness and great loss behind the ‘Great Pause’ cannot be underestimated neither can the wonderful opportunities and hope it offers.

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1536 864 Emma Whitham
Post COVID-19 – View from the Green Hive

Post COVID-19 – View from the Green Hive

I don’t want a new normal.  There was little about the ‘normal’ prior to COVID-19 that was sustainable and clearly our recent global crisis has exposed the increasing inequality across people and places.

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1536 864 Neil Mapes
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