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Reports: Growing Health case study: Bradford Community Environment Project (BCEP)

Gardening for Health (G4H) aims to reduce local inequalities in health and wellbeing by encouraging food growing and healthy eating.
Growing Health | Tuesday 7 April 2015

News: Real Bread Week fashions for flour arrangers

From 9 - 15 May, dough nuts around the world will be joining forces for Real Bread Week, the annual celebration of independent Real Bread bakeries and loafing around at home. Bakers, millers, baking teachers and everyone else can get involved, whether with friends, family, neighbours or colleagues, perhaps in association with a local bakery, café or restaurant, pub, community group, farmers’ market, school, or workplace.
Real Bread Campaign | Tuesday 7 April 2015

News: Department for Education tries to increase school meal take up

The Department for Education have commissioned the Food for Life Partnership, the Children's Food Trust and the Design and Technology Association to help junior and secondary schools increase their school meal take-up. The Food for Life Partnership are offering a support package worth up to £2,000 for schools that apply to their scheme - offering one to one support, training opportunities and online resources. FFLP argue that increasing the take-up of school meals is a good way to help schools make the most of their money.
Sustain | Friday 3 April 2015

News: Parents fail to recognise child obesity

A new study has shown that parents underestimate where their child's body mass index (BMI) is on the obesity scale. The study gave questionnaires to 2976 families. Of these only four parents thought their child was very overweight - medical assessments put the figure at 369. The study was conducted by a team from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the UCL Institute of Child Health and was published in the British Journal of General Practice. See how you can support Sustain's Children's Food Campaign.
Sustain | Friday 3 April 2015

News: EU milk quotas scrapped

The EU milk quota system, set up in 1984, has ended so that EU dairy businesses can compete internationally as dairy markets grow in Asia and Africa. While the European Commission have said they believe international markets like China were keen to take up European dairy products, the UK National Farmers' Union voiced concerns that this could mean further price reductions for English and Welsh dairy farmers and a return to over production and the 'milk lakes' and 'butter mountains' of the 1980s.
Sustain | Friday 3 April 2015

News: Which? calls for supermarkets to publish Campylobacter plans

Consumer group Which? have launched a campaign to make all supermarkets publish the results of their Campylobacter tests. Which? have backed the Food Standards Agency, who want all supermarkets to outline their plans to tackle Campylobacter in chicken. Which? say this will help to reassure the public that supermarkets are doing everything they can to make chicken safe. Almost 30,000 people have already signed up.
Sustain | Friday 3 April 2015

News: National planning rules need to change

Fast food takeaway numbers increase everywhere, but growth more rapid in deprived areas of UK
Children's Food Campaign | Thursday 2 April 2015

News: At least 10 times less antibiotics used in organic pigs

The Danish Food and Agriculture Ministry released statistics comparing antibiotic use in Danish organic and conventional pigs in response to a parliamentary question. Conventional pigs were treated with about ten times more doses than organic pigs - and for weaner pigs up to 20 times. In the UK, data on antibiotic use by species is not yet available but sales data suggests that use in British pigs and poultry is about 4 or 5 times higher than in Denmark. If UK organic pigs receive similar amounts of antibiotics as Danish ones, then the difference between UK organic and conventional pigs could be about 40 or 50 fold.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Monday 30 March 2015

News: Join the sugar march

Join the Landworkers’ Alliance (LWA) as they celebrate Via Campesina’s International day of Peasant Struggle, by marching on British Sugar PLC to expose the inequality and problems inherent in our industrial food system. Government support of big agri-businesses, like British Sugar PLC, threatens the health of our communities and the quality of our environment. And we’re subsidising exactly the wrong sort of agriculture. The March starts 1pm, 29th April from Bury St Edmunds train station.
Sustain | Friday 27 March 2015

News: Protein Challenge 2040

Forum for the Future is working with partners like WWF, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition as well as Hersheys, Quorn and Waitrose on a project to come up with solutions to the problem of protein - how to make the protein in our diets more sustainable. Forum for the Future are keen to collaborate across government, business and civil society and welcome involvement from a wide range of organisations.
Sustain | Friday 27 March 2015