Coronavirus Food Alert

These pages communicate how the Sustain alliance is striving to secure a resilient food system during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. We are organising ourselves around three headline issues:

We are also working on three cross-cutting themes:

Read Sustain's statement on priorities and principles for our response to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic

Coronavirus Food Alert news and blogs

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UK Food and Drink industry releases recovery plan

Thirty UK food and drink industry organisations have drawn up a plan ‘Building a pathway to recovery’ which puts forward proposals that...

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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...

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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.

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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....

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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...

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Could Covid-19 shape future food policy?

As lockdown has transformed lifestyles and livelihoods, the impact on the food landscape is offering the opportunity to reimagine future food

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Sustain and Good Law Project: Legal action on school meals to continue

UPDATE 14:00 16/6/20: Following the Government announcement of a new £120m Coronavirus Summer School Fund, Sustain and Good Law Project are now...

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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...

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Free webinar: Reopening, rebuilding, retaining customers

Hear from and share tips with Real Bread bakeries and other good food business folk.

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Enfield Council’s Free School Meals Vouchers

With the majority of children not attending school during the Covid-19 crisis, the London borough of Enfield is solving the dilemma of how to provide...

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Survey finds resilience among diverse good food enterprises

A survey of 100 good food enterprises at the start of lockdown has shown that a high number of enterprises were able to stay open for business and...

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Sustain and Good Law Project threaten legal action to secure free school meals over the summer

The Government has been warned it will face legal proceedings if it fails to provide free school meals over the summer holidays, in a letter issued...

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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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Grassroots food groups working toward community resilience

A growing number of grassroots and Mutual Aid networks are now planning long-term community-based activities as the threat of Covid eases but food...

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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...

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Manchester bowling green converted into an urban farm to provide food for the Covid response

Community group Manchester Urban Diggers (MUD) has launched a new veg box scheme using produce grown on an abandoned bowling green in Platt...

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Government U-turn on income threshold for free school meals for some children with NRPF

Following legal action by a low-paid carer, the Government has increased the maximum income threshold for children in households with 'No...

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All outdoor markets – food and non-food – can fully re-open from 1st June

Sustain has welcomed news that all stallholders in outdoor markets will be able to trade from 1 June, and indoor markets from 15 June, and is calling...

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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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Sippets: May 2020

Recent crumbs of news from the world of Real Bread.

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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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Trade body issues urgent call to re-open retail markets with 65 per cent closed

The National Market Traders Federation (NMTF) has labelled the closure of markets ‘a farce’, as new data reveals two-thirds of traders...

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Breadsticks and chill

Finding your happy place in a bag of flour.

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Unhealthy food brands are using the crisis for PR stunts

A recent article in The Grocer has outed junk food brands, like Krispy Kreme, who are using the current Covid-19 crisis to push their brands...

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Coronavirus Food Alert