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Vulnerable still struggling to get food: Which? calls for urgent action

More than a quarter of people vulnerable to Covid-19 could be at risk of going hungry because they have faced difficulty accessing basic food and...
News

Parents! Share your views on children and food during Covid-19

Children's Food Campaign and Food Active have launched a new survey with parents to find out how being in lockdown during Covid-19...
News

Back of the net! Campaigners celebrate free school meals win

Whilst footballer Marcus Rashford scored the final winning goal in the free school meals campaign, the Government’s u-turn on holiday hunger...
Blog

What can we learn from the response so far to food vulnerability during Covid-19?

Food Power recently brought together over 100 people from food poverty alliances, food partnerships and other local networks from all over the UK....
Blog

Covid-19 food insecurity must not be allowed to happen again

Sustain calls for a public inquiry into the Covid-19 emergency food response, to ensure that we don't make the same mistakes again.

Blog

Why local markets are key to reviving our locked down town centres

Welcome to our guest blog from Sara González and Paul Waley from the University of Leeds

Blog

10 ways industry is flogging us junk food through lockdown

Junk food companies are coming up with innovative ways to sell junk food to us during lockdown, some of which might raise a few eyebrows. Fran...

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Community Building: 11 resources for developing thriving local food movements

What do our local areas need in place to resource and amplify public action on healthy and sustainable food? Vera Zakharov envisions a dynamic food...

08/07/2020
Sustainable Food Cities

Government launches its Trade and Agriculture Commission

The Government has today announced the scope and membership of its proposed Trade and Agriculture Commission. It will be chaired by Tim Smith, Ex...

10/07/2020
Brexit

Will Government plan to tackle obesity work?

Sustain responds to the reports on the confused messaging coming from Government plans to tackle obesity. 

10/07/2020
Children's Food Campaign

Making sense of it: What's happened and what next?

When it comes to food insecurity, how do we assess what's happened over the last months to address rising need in local areas? And how can...

14/07/2020
Sustain

Despite climate emergency, financiers continue to pour billions into meat and dairy, new report reveals

A new report from Feedback exposes – for the first time –  the financiers funding climate breakdown through industrial meat and...

13/07/2020
Climate Change and Nature

Save Dalston Curve Garden

The much-loved Dalston Eastern Curve Garden have launched a Go Fund Me to cover costs of social distance renovations and loss of profits due to...

07/07/2020
Jellied Eel

Hungry for change: Peers call for food system failures to be fixed

New report by the House of Lords Select Committee on Food, Poverty, Health and the Environment examines how to make a healthy, sustainable diet...

06/07/2020
Right to Food

True Loaf 43 out now

Read the latest edition of the Real Bread Campaign supporters’ magazine.

02/07/2020
Real Bread Campaign

Love Your Local Loafers launched

Just keep enjoying the better bread you’ve been eating during lockdown.

01/07/2020
Real Bread Campaign

Environment Secretary says the UK will be 'open' to considering contentious US food safety methods

Environment Secretary was interviewed on the Today programme this morning. He insisted the UK would maintain a ban on chlorine-washed chicken and...

26/06/2020
Brexit

Which? launches campaign to save UK food standards from low quality US imports

Consumer champion Which? has launched a petition to save UK food standards, just as the UK enters the next round of trade talks with the US.

15/06/2020
Brexit

Toxic Trade

Toxic Trade compares existing UK pesticide standards with those of the US, Australia and India. The report highlights that Free Trade Agreements...

09/06/2020
Food and Farming Policy

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