Local Food explores a huge range of local food initiatives for rebuilding a diverse, resilient, local food network, drawing on practical experience of Transition Initiatives and other community projects around the world. Tamzin Pinkerton has an academic background in Social Anthropology and Human Rights and has been involved in various Transition Town Totnes projects. Rob Hopkins is the founder of the Transition Movement, and has recently won the Observer Ethical Award for Grassroots Campaigns