Indonesia signs palm oil deal with Norway Resource Reuters reports that Indonesia's annual oil palm expansion may halve to 50,000 hectares from 2009 levels once a $1 billion climate change deal with Norway comes into effect next year. The government has promised land swaps for cancelling some forest concessions. Read
UK - major increase in sales of higher welfare chicken Resource This press release from the RSPCA suggests that people can be persuaded to think about more than price. Read
Paper on reducing meat and dairy consumption Resource Millward D J and Garnett T (2010). "Plenary Lecture 3: Food and the planet: nutritional dilemmas of greenhouse gas emission reductions through reduced intakes of meat and dairy foods." Proceedings of the Nutrition Society (2010), 69, 103–118 Read
Climate benefits of changing diet Resource Stehfest E, Bouwman L, van Vuuren D P, den Elzen MGJ, Eickhout B, Kabat P. (2009). "Climate benefits of changing diet", Climatic Change, Volume 95, Numbers 1-2 / July Abstract Read