* SR campaigned for greater transparency in…

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* SR campaigned for greater transparency in Scottish public life and won a landmark judgement from the Scottish information commissioner which has led to a transformation in the information available about executive salaries and pensions in public bodies

*  Having discovered elderly people still living in a near-derelict block of flats in Glasgow, sometimes without a water supply, SR campaigned to have them decently re-housed. With the help of Scotland’s housing minister, Alex Neil, we succeeded

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The un-nourished:

the disaster of

Scotland’s food

Andrew Guest

Andrew Guest writes on art, culture and the built environment

With acknowledgement to all the participants of the 2010 One Planet Food summer school