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Minister to meet Fife Diet organisers

Roseanna Cunningham will visit the healthy eating and climate change project.

08 July 2009 01:00 GMT

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Environment Minister Roseanna Cunningham will meet with the organisers and producers of the acclaimed Fife Diet project on Wednesday.

The Fife Diet encourages people to sign-up to eating food from the region, monitor their progress and share their experiences.

Working closely with suppliers and local farmers, the group aims to reduce food miles and re-localise produce.

Minister to meet Fife Diet organisers

Speaking ahead of the visit, Ms Cunningham said: "The number of people signing up to the Fife Diet is testament to itself – over 800 people are now participating. I hope to see this number grow even further in support of the rural communities and businesses involved.

"I am delighted to once again see Mike and Karen Small, the founders of the Fife Diet, and meet some of the valuable producers who make this scheme possible.

"While contributing to sustainable economic growth, the scheme also has positive environmental benefits, with the overall project making an estimated saving of 1,737 tonnes of CO2 by reducing food miles."

Mike Small, founder of the Fife Diet, added: "We know that Scotland is now leading the world in climate change legislation by our aim of 42 per cent reduction in emissions by 2020. Now we need to examine the details of how we achieve that.

"Re-localising our food system is a major part of that, and its a process that we also know has very real benefits to the local economy."

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