Rosie Boycott speaks at Transition Town Brixton

Rosie Boycott, London Food Adviser, Farmer and Campaigner on London Food Security & Resillience.

Our current food system invests 10 calories of fossil energy to get 1 calorie of food energy out. We import more than 40% of our food. As oil and gas supplies dwindle this will present problems. In the city we are reliant on supermarket distribution chains, but supermarkets only hold enough food to feed us all for three days, leaving us "nine meals away from anarchy" should our imports be interrupted.

But there are ways we can help to change our food system to make ourselves more self-reliant - even in London!

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Education

Tags:

• food
• transition
• farming
• security
• transition towns
• brixton