Food

Answer:
There is a gap in diet between rich and poor, resulting in health and life expectancy problems. The challenge is to change the food system to make it easy for everyone to eat well.

Full answer here: How will Scotland feed itself?



Food In A Common Weal Scotland

Author / Creator: Pete Richie

Media type: Policy Paper

Date published: August 2014

The food and drink industry is growing, and new businesses are emerging. There’s a bustle of activities in communities, with new growing projects and food networks.  The dietary gap between rich and poor is widening, with the rise in food banks; and the public health impact of the Scottish diet is set to grow.


The Common Home Plan – Technical Report

Author / Creator: Common Weal

Media type: Policy Paper

Date published:

This Technical Report is an annex to The Common Home Plan, a part of Our Common Home – A Green New Deal for Scotland. The fact that this book represents the broadest and most detailed Green New Deal blueprint yet published for any country means that it covers a great many of topics in detail and thus draws upon a vast body of literature and other previously published work.


The Common Home Plan

Author / Creator: Common Weal

Media type: Policy Paper

Date published:

There are a number of policy tools which can be used to encourage transformative changes to our lifestyles. However, it should be noted that most of these policy tools are designed to enact structural change rather than individual change and, again, it must not be read that these can simply be introduced into a free market economy as if they will succeed in shifting those markets. They won't, at least not as a result of individual behaviours. The Plan details the the changes needed.