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ACTION - Ask your local council to keep food markets open – we need them more than ever

Up and down the country, food market stalls, street markets and farmers' markets have shut up shop in response to...
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Public wants more action on obesity in light of Covid19

74% of the British public want to see more Government action on obesity, in light of evidence showing links between Covid19 and...
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New manifesto identifies 'fast actions' to keep food SMEs in business

COVID-19 has exposed the inflexibility of the UK’s food supply chains. A report by the Dynamic Food Procurement National Advisory...
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...
Blog

Farming through a pandemic: the better food shed story

Sustain is sharing this blog from alliance member Growing Communities as it describes the experience of working in the front lines of supplying...
Blog

Fringe Farming: why Market Garden Cities need to be part of a resilient food supply

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, more than ever, we must unlock land around cities to create a renewed model of peri-urban food production...
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Now is the time for a national household food security plan

Millions of people are struggling to put food on the table. When lockdown eases, hunger will not go away. It's time for a National Food Security...

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A green and pressured land - new report on making sense of the many competing demands for rural and peri-urban land

Sustain is today publishing a briefing on land use "A Green and Pressured Land - making sense of the many competing demands for rural and...

03/06/2020
Food and Farming Policy

New initiative launched to help gardens grow food to donate 

Capital Growth has launched Community Harvest to provide community food gardens the tools, materials and advice needed to grow more food for their...

27/05/2020
Capital Growth

ACTION: Join the call to pause US UK trade talks

Trade talks between the United States and the UK will resume today (Tuesday 5 May 2020), even as both countries struggle to contain the coronavirus...

05/05/2020
Brexit

Health experts call for Government action on obesity to reduce Covid-19 complications 

Sustain alliance member, Action on Sugar and Action on Salt are today calling on the Government to take evidence-based action to reduce national...

29/05/2020
Children's Food Campaign

South London café raising money for healthy meal delivery

The Platform Café in Loughborough Junction are crowdfunding to run a healthy meal service to locals in need.  

28/05/2020
Jellied Eel

US livestock receive more than five times as many antibiotics as British livestock

New data shows that US livestock received on average 5.4 times more antibiotics per animal in 2018 than their UK counterparts. In particular, US...

27/05/2020
Save Our Antibiotics

Latest on UK trade negotiations

There has been a lot of trade news recently, so we've brought it together in once place for you.

21/05/2020
Brexit

Kellogg's Pringles forced to remove ads from #PEWithJoe YouTube channel

A successful complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority shamed Kelloggs into removing Pringles ads shown alongside the popular...

21/05/2020
Children's Food Campaign

Government must wake up to the value of local food in light of COVID-19

Sustain member Farms not Factories are highlighting the danger to both people and animals of intensive livestock farming and industrialised...

21/05/2020
Food and Farming Policy

Younger Leave voters support regulation on food, retail and environmental protection post-Brexit, polling shows

A survey commissioned by alliance member Unchecked UK has revealed that most younger Leave voters support current standards and regulation. Two...

20/05/2020
Brexit

Online help to grow-your-own food

Londoners with access to a garden, outdoor space or even a windowsill, can learn how to grow their own food, with a new wave of online workshops,...

18/05/2020
Jellied Eel

Sustain joins call for MPs to protect UK food standards in the Agriculture Bill

Sustain has today joined a large group of food, farming, environmental and animal welfare organisations to write to all 650 MPs, asking them to...

13/05/2020
Food and Farming Policy

Stepney City Farm Cafe relaunching as The Allotment Kitchen

Celebrity chef Ben Tish will be helping relaunch this farm-based café by creating three weeks of special Saturday night dishes for...

07/05/2020
Jellied Eel

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