In addition to reducing food miles, stimulating local economies and providing farmers with alternative markets, these locally based systems can also be a model for agriculture at the rural-urban interface.
Again, short food miles and local branding are essential.
The environmental impact has been seen in so-called food miles.
We can do a great deal to support local sourcing, not only through supporting our farmers in the rural economy but in reducing food miles.
Will he and his ministerial colleagues give thought to specific measures that might encourage a reduction in food miles?
Sustainability has to involve not simply aviation fuel taxation but measures to reduce food miles.
I also hope that a greater emphasis on fresh foods will benefit local farmers, who can best supply freshness while keeping food miles low.
More encouraging was the evidence of local interest from producers and consumers in farmers' markets, organic farming, reducing food miles and so on.
