Defra SCP infonet
SCPinfonet is a free, online service providing easy search and discovery of knowledge related to Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP), provided as part of Defra’s Green Economy Programme.
With one click of the “search” button, each search interrogates a comprehensive set of knowledge resources:
• 25 Internet site searches relevant to SCP
• two large indexes of more than 300,000 relevant documents, regularly updated and re-indexed
and, for completeness,
• the Google search engine.
UNEP SCP branch - Clearinghouse for National SCP Programmes
This clearinghouse provides information on existing national sustainable consumption and production (SCP) programmes, national initiatives in their final stages of development and UNEP demonstration projects
Projects
Dolceta, Sustainable consumption
A pan-European project for Consumer Education on sustainable consumption (UK)
EATWELL
Interventions to Promote Healthy Eating Habits: Evaluation and Recommendation. An EU-project that aims to make an overview of the actions undertaken and identifying gaps, success and failure factors for campaigns
Food for Life Partnership
Links to the website of the Food for Life Partnership in England which involves schools in cooking and growing activities, visiting farms and serving healthy school meals
IDEFICS - Identification and prevention of Dietary- and lifestyle-induced health EFfects In Children and infantS
The study will deliver reliable data to make an international assessment of the problem of "obesity in children" possible. The focus of the IDEFICS Study lies in exploring the risks for overweight and obesity in children as well as associated long-term consequences.
Sustainable Everyday Project
The Sustainable Everyday Project (SEP) proposes an open web platform to stimulate social conversation on possible sustainable futures…
Institutions
BEUC - European Consumers’ Organisation
As part of a broad strategy to tackle obesity and other diet-related diseases, consumers need clear and complete food information to help them make healthy choices easily.
Confederation of Food and Drink Industries of the EU (CIAA)
CIAA’s mission is to represent the food and drink industries’ interests, at the level of both European and international institutions
Consumers International
the global voice for consumers
European Commission - Environment
EU official website
European Food Information Council (EUFIC)
The EUFIC is a non-profit organisation which provides science-based information on food safety and quality and health and nutrition to the media, health and nutrition professionals, educators and opinion leaders, in a way that consumers can understand
European Food SCP Roundtable
The European Food SCP Round Table is an initiative that is co-chaired by the European Commission and food supply chain partners and supported by the UNEP and European Environment Agency. There are 24 member organisations representing the European food supply chain.
Food Chain Sustainability Special Interest Group
"Our ambition is to provide a one-stop-shop for information on sustainability in the food chain"
Food Study Group
The group aims to encourage the sociological analysis, both theoretical and empirical, of all aspects of food production and consumption, through e.g. seminars and conferences
Friends of the Earth International
An international grassroots environmental network that campaigns on today's most urgent environmental and social issues. Wanting to challenge the current model of economic and corporate globalization, and promote solutions that will help to create environmentally sustainable and socially just societies
IFOAM EU Group
Working for Organic Food and Farming in Europe. IFOAM's goal is the worldwide adoption of ecologically, socially and economically sound systems that are based on the principles of Organic Agriculture
International Association for the Study of Obesity (IASO)
The IASO is a not-for-profit organisation linking over 50 regional and national associations with over 10,000 professional members in scientific, medical and research organisations. It is an umbrella organisation for national obesity associations which comprises 52 member associations, representing 56 countries
Sierra Club (USA) Sustainable consumption
Food Consumption & Its Environmental Impact. Food Facts: the environmental impact of agriculture and food production
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