Sustainweb
- Growing food together
- Calling for hospital food standards
- Campaigning for bees, forage and a pesticide free city
- 2,012 new food growing spaces by the end of 2012
- For better school food, and food skills, and protecting children from junk food marketing
- An informal network of London restaurants and catering businesses that care about sustainability
- Evidence of the contribution of food and farming to climate change
- Find or set up a Food Co-op in your area
- Helping producers, consumers, retailers and caterers provide healthy and sustainable food
- Inspired by the London 2012 Food Vision, the campaign for healthy and sustainable food in catering
- Sustainable food news in London
- Working for sustainable food at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
- For bread made with natural ingredients
- Challenging businesses and citizens to make London the world's first Sustainable Fish City
- Practical advice for anyone interested in buying and using more sustainable food
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Sustain produces a number of quarterly magazines. Please follow the links below for more information
Digest
Sustain’s magazine covers a wide range of current food and farming policy initiatives and developments. More information
The Jellied Eel
London Food Link's magazine for Sustainable Food in London. More information
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Soft Drinks, Hard Sell: How soft drink companies target children and their parents
Children’s Food Campaign - 24pp - 2011
The Children's Food Campaign conducted a survey of the summer’s soft drink marketing campaigns in 2011 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.Children’s Food Campaign - 24pp - 2011
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Local Food Links: The first 10 years
Making Local Food Work - 36pp - 2011
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 a social enterprise from the trading arm of a charity to an independent organisation focused on providing nutritious school meals made with local food. Making Local Food Work - 36pp - 2011
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Good planning for good food - using planning policy for local and sustainable food
Local Action on Food - 39pp - 2011
Spatial planning directly affects the food system, including decisions about protecting land for farming, planning permission for food retailing and waste management facilities, and encouraging urban food production. This report explores how local authorities and communities can use planning policy and decisions to create more local and sustainable food systems. Local Action on Food - 39pp - 2011
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The Food Miles Report - the dangers of long-distance food transport
Food Facts - 62pp - 2011
Food Facts - 62pp - 2011
Re-print of the original 1994 publication, with an updated foreword. Food is being transported longer and longer distances – food miles – from producer to consumer. In the UK, comparatively little of the food we consume comes from local producers; and much will have been transported over great distances. Cheap non-renewable fossil fuel energy makes intensive agriculture and long-distance transportation economically viable, and has allowed food production and distribution to become global industries. Prices in shops do not reflect the full cradle-to-grave environmental and social costs.
But the concept of food miles isn’t just about distances. This report explores some of the wider social and ecological implications of international food trade, and suggests how to reduce excessive, unnecessary food miles. Download publication More information
Knead to Know, the Real Bread starter - baking bread for your local community
Real Bread Campaign - ISBN - 978 1903060 49 0 - 144pp - 2011
Knead to Know: the Real Bread starter is the only book dedicated to helping you on the path to success in bringing Real Bread to the heart of your local community. Real Bread Campaign - ISBN - 978 1903060 49 0 - 144pp - 2011
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Bake Your Lawn: Grow it, mill it, bake it, eat it
Real Bread Campaign - 37pp - 2011
The Real Bread Campaign is showing children around Britain how to Bake Your Lawn and follow the Real Bread trail from seed to sandwich on your own doorstep. This guide is for teachers and parents who want to help children have fun finding out that Real Bread starts in a field, not a factory. It includes tips and pointers to further information for allotmenteers, would-be good-lifers and everyone else who wants to make getting a sandwich a bit more inspiring than a trip to the chiller cabinet at a petrol station.Real Bread Campaign - 37pp - 2011
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Food Co-ops Toolkit - a simple and comprehensive guide to setting up food co-ops
Food co-ops - 150pp - 2011
This 150-page, comprehensive toolkit has been produced as part of the Big Lottery funded Making Local Food Work programme to help more communities set up their own food co-ops and buying groups.Food co-ops - 150pp - 2011
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How to set up a food co-op or buying group in a school
Food co-ops toolkit - 4pp - 2011
This simple "how to" factsheet advises schools on how to make fresh, local, ethically produced food more accessible to the local community, whilst supporting local farmers by providing them with a local, regular and reliable outlet. A school food co-op can also support other programmes such as Healthy Schools, Eco Schools and Food For Life.Food co-ops toolkit - 4pp - 2011
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How to set up a food co-op or buying group in a university or college
Food co-ops toolkit - 4pp - 2011
This simple "how to" factsheet advises universities, colleges and student groups on how to make fresh, local, ethically produced food more accessible to the local community, whilst supporting local farmers by providing them with a local, regular and reliable outlet. Food co-ops toolkit - 4pp - 2011
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How to set up a food co-op or buying group at work
Food co-ops toolkit - 4pp - 2011
This simple "how to" factsheet advises people in workplaces on how to make fresh, local, ethically produced food more accessible to themselves and their colleagues, whilst supporting local farmers by providing them with a local, regular and reliable outlet. Food co-ops toolkit - 4pp - 2011
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