This report aims to help community food organisations price their produce and explains why this is important both for them individually and for the alternative food system as a whole.

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This Local Action on Food report highlights the commercial opportunities for community grown produce and showcases initiatives that are doing it already. The report shows examples of food that is being produced as close to the market place as possible and the opportunities for community food growing projects to make links more widely in the community as well as generate income to contribute towards project costs and to lift the ambitions of the people involved.

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This joint report from the Children’s Food Campaign (CFC) and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) reveals the manipulative tactics junk food manufacturers use to hook children while they play online and entice them to eat foods loaded with fat, salt and sugar. The report assesses how junk food manufacturers bombard kids online in a bit to push these unhealthy products. The CFC and BHF are calling for consistent advertising regulations across all forms of media to protect children and their future health.

All the brands featured in the report are products which are high in fat, salt or sugar (HFSS). Advertisements for these products can’t be shown during children’s television programmes because they fail the Food Standards Agency and Ofcom nutrient profiling test. Yet due to a loophole in advertising regulations, companies are allowed to market these products and brands freely via the internet.

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Case Study of a Health Crisis finds there has been an alarming rise in new farm superbugs, especially MRSA and E. coli that are passing to humans. The report links this rise to the fact that nearly 50% of all antibiotics are used in farming and argues that one of the fundamental causes of food and animal-related antibiotic resistance is factory farming.

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The 2011 Good Food for London report provides maps of London’s 33 Boroughs to reveal how London Boroughs are taking action to help create a healthy and sustainable food system, for the benefit of everyone. It assesses London Borough progress on issues such as community food growing, school food, food waste, encouraging food outlets to serve healthier food, and buying ethical products, including Fairtrade, free range eggs and sustainable fish. The report shows that nearly a third of London Boroughs (ten) are making excellent progress, but others are lagging behind. Compiled by Sustain's London Food Link, with contributions from many independent organisations that promote healthy and sustainable food, and several members of the London Food Board.

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This report compares 'Government Buying Standards' (which apply to food served in government departments, parts of the military and state-funded prisons) to the environmental and ethical standards of food served at McDonald’s, the global fast food giant. The results show that the environmental and ethical standard of food served at McDonald’s is either higher than or equivalent to ‘Government Buying Standards’.

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Why the Government’s Responsibility Deal is better for the food industry than public health.

This report analyses the Coalition Government’s Public Health Responsibility Deal, focusing on the pledges made by members of the food industry. The Government’s stated aim, for this Deal, is to help reduce the serious health problems caused by our unhealthy diets. We agree that the need for effective public health policies has never been stronger, but this report shows that, in our view, the Responsibility Deal is not up to the task. The analyses conducted by Children’s Food Campaign demonstrates what each “partner” had committed to, but also for the first time, what they had decided not to commit to, and in some cases what they had irrelevantly committed to.

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In Discover Organic, celebrities, chefs and home cooks share their passion for organic food, and show just how easy it is to eat organic. Their stories and recipes demonstrate how eating organic is practical, great tasting, better for nature and above all – something we can all make part of every mealtime. This beautifully illustrated cookbook features 70 delicious recipes from well-known personalities and TV chefs including BBC presenter Kate Humble, Boxer David Haye, Chefs Raymond Blanc and Lorraine Pascale and former F1 World Champion racing driver Jody Scheckter.

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The Children's Food Campaign conducted a survey of this summer’s soft drink marketing campaigns that are likely to appeal to children and their parents. We compared the products with their marketing messages, across a range of brands, and found that in several cases, companies were using misleading marketing to sell more soft drinks to children.

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A review of the development of Local Food Links by Tim Crabtree, its former director and one of the founders of the Bridport Centre for Local Food. The report charts the development of the organisation from the trading arm of a charity to an independent organisation focussed on service delivery. It gives a fascinating account of the successes and challenges faced by the project and provides food for thought for anyone in the community food sector.

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