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Food for Life Partnership Midlands awards ceremony

We’ll be celebrating the success of Food for Life Partnership schools at the next of our regional awards ceremonies this Thursday 4 February 2010. Soil Association president Monty Don will present awards to schools from across the Midlands at the Soil Association annual conference in Birmingham.

After the ceremony Monty Don will join young people from Food for Life Partnership schools in a Q&A session focusing on ‘Schools, food and the future’. Also taking part in the discussion will be Food for Life Partnership director, Emma Noble, school meals policy adviser, Jeanette Orrey and farmer, Mark Lea.

The award winners:
Gold
St Andrew’s CE Primary School
St Peter’s CE Primary School
Silver
The Oval Primary School
Abbey Road Primary School
Coppice Farm Primary School
Eastwood Comprehensive School
Franche Community Primary School
Oakmeadow CE Primary School
Bronze
Archbishop Ilsley Catholic Technology College
Bolsover Junior School
Old Hall Junior School
Orleton CE Primary School

Soil Association annual conference 2010 - The Future of Food
3 - 4 February 2010
The Custard Factory, Birmingham

The Soil Association conference addresses the triple challenges of climate change, resource depletion and food security and the need to develop new models for food and farming systems for the 21st century. Arguably our current globalised, and deeply unsustainable industrial approach, requires a national action programme on the scale of a war effort.

Despite the urgency of the need for radical overhaul of our food and farming systems many key players in the agricultural industry believe that the solution will be based on existing production systems high inputs, GM and global trade. This conference will debate whether a modified ‘business as usual’ strategy will suffice or whether preparing for the future will require the most far reaching changes to our food systems for more than half a century.

Read the full programme and book your ticket online