Paul Bettison, who chairs the LGA's environment board, told the BBC food scrap collections might help reduce some of the smells caused by fortnightly waste collections.
Food writer and broadcaster Valentine Warner will be judging the Best Food Market category at the BBC Food and Farming Awards, which is currently open for nominations.
World Food Programme executive director Josette Sheeran told the BBC food was being brought in by road and air, and bought locally, but supplies were under "deep stress".
The list includes diet-related apps like Diet Diary and BBC Good Food as well as links to YouTube channels dedicated to healthy cooking.
Meanwhile people in the town have told the BBC of food shortages because the main market in the town has been closed for the last five days.
Independent food safety expert Dr Slim Dinsdale told the BBC the British food industry was one of the best regulated, despite these problems.
He helped to create BBC Two show Food and Drink, which was launched in 1982.
The council has refused to release to the BBC details of food hygiene inspections at John Tudor and Son of Bridgend, the butcher at the centre of the E.coli investigations.
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"They've done a clever twist on it, " Charity Kenyon from the Slow Food Movement told BBC News.
Richard Watts from the Children's Food Campaign told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that 18 out of the top 20 shows watched by children were not covered by the new ban.
Last month, the BBC bought a total of 30 food products at random for testing from supermarkets, shops and butchers in Belfast and elsewhere in Northern Ireland.
By contrast, both starvation and obesity are closely linked with poverty, and as such they are both symptoms of malnutrition, Ertharin Cousin, executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme, tells BBC News.
The team invited the mini BBC crew to share some of their food as we met some of the team.
"A pike is not an alligator or a python - it will not accommodate similar-sized food, " he told the BBC.
The FSA tested almost 80, 000 samples of food last year, he told the BBC.
The BBC has banned the use of its cartoon characters for fast food advertising.
"We're interested in the role of food security and food supply in literature, " Dr Archer told BBC Radio Wales.
Co-ordinator Richard Bashford told BBC Radio 4's Today programme "a lack of food for the chicks" was causing the fall in the number of house sparrow sightings.
The BBC's Junior Lingangue in Bangui says resident are stockpiling food amid fears that the rebels - known as the Seleka coalition - could launch an assault in the next few days.
He told the BBC that between 40 and 60% of those people who needed food parcels claimed them because of the late delivery of their state benefits.
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"We're already hearing stories about families living on at most one meal a day, children going into the bush to search for wild food and wild fruit, " Mr Lee told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.
Figures obtained by the BBC suggest about 6, 000 people have been given vouchers for emergency food parcels by benefits officials in the last year.
He told BBC Radio Wales the issue highlighted the length and tiers involved in the food chain and that providers were unable to ensure the contents of products.
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The BBC's Nick Bryant in Sydney says Australian authorities were able to drop food, water and a survival suit to the 63-year-old, but his location was too remote for a helicopter rescue.
The BBC spoke to Tuwe about getting used to the city's subway and fast food as well as the challenges indigenous communities face from loggers and drug cartels.
For example, Jim Rodgers, co-founder with George Soros of the Quantum Fund, told the BBC that a lack of farmers played a starring role in a recent spike in food prices - grain, corn and soybean being critical parts of the food supply chain.
"Local authorities across the country have been totally supportive of driving food standards up in schools over the last few years, " she told BBC News.
They believe the regulatory process needs to be speeded up to ensure that the global food security demands of the next few decades can be met, says the BBC's Tom Heap.
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