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News: Sustain launches national platform to help track local food policy and practice

Good Food Local is Sustain’s new benchmarking platform to help local authorities take meaningful action for a healthy and sustainable food system. Free and easy to use, it follows the success of Good Food Local: London and Good Food Local: The North East.
Good Food Local | Thursday 22 May 2025

News: Children’s food movement unites at national awards to celebrate changemakers  

Children’s food and health advocates celebrate inspiring campaigners, community groups, councils and political leadership, but condemn toddler and baby food brands and fast food chains for misleading health claims and high levels of salt and free sugars.  
Children's Food Campaign | Tuesday 25 February 2025

News: MPs debate the childhood obesity strategy

On Thursday 21 January MPs will take part in a debate on a motion relating to the childhood obesity strategy. This debate was scheduled by the Backbench Business Committee following a bid from Dr Sarah Wollaston, Conservative MP for Totnes. The motion brought forward  by Dr Wollaston is 'That this House calls on the Government to bring forward a bold and effective strategy to tackle childhood obesity'  
Children's Food Campaign | Thursday 21 January 2016

News: Defra abandons its plans for a Horticulture Strategy

In the Government’s food strategy, Defra committed to co-producing a Horticulture Strategy with the sector. But responding to a recent Parliamentary Question, Mark Spencer confirmed that Defra will be canning this pledge.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Wednesday 3 May 2023

News: Scottish government launches pollinator strategy

Since 1980, the number of pollinating insects in Scotland - honey bees, bumble bees, the solitary bee, butterflies and hoverflies - has fallen by an estimated 51%. The decline, which threatens food crops and biodiversity, has rung alarm bells in Holyrood. This new strategy is the response.
Sustain | Monday 31 July 2017

Reports: Sustain Strategy 2021 to 2025

This five-year strategy for the Sustain alliance is launched in 2021, at a time of great change for the future of the UK’s food, farming and fishing. Sustain is also 21 years old, symbolically marking our ‘coming of age’, with a renewed sense of agency, determination and shared purpose.
Sustain | Tuesday 1 June 2021

Blog: Horticulture Strategy ditched: a massive backward step for the fruit and veg we need

The Farm Minister Mark Spencer MP recently announced that the Government will not produce the Horticulture Strategy, promised in the Government’s food strategy. Sustain's Head of Farming Vicki Hird vents her huge frustration at this backwards step and sets out why and how such a strategy, a coherent policy package, could deliver so much.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Tuesday 9 May 2023

News: 1 National Planning Policy Framework for England recognises food’s role in creating healthy communities

Sustain | Wednesday 1 January 2020

News: EFSA Strategy 2020

The European Food Safety Authority has launched a public consultation on its draft Strategy 2020. 
Sustain | Sunday 8 November 2015

News: Government strategy for 'clean growth', and Friends of the Earth's response

The Government's new Clean Growth Strategy contains many admirable proposals, but also has some major omissions, including on agriculture, finds Sustain member Friends of the Earth.
Sustain | Friday 13 October 2017


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