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Blog: Finding your path: careers in sustainable food and farming

Careers into sustainable food and farming can take unexpected paths, but many combine a passion for social change, great people skills and a flair for communication. Our diverse panel share their journeys, key skills, and advice for breaking into the sector.
Sustain | Tuesday 18 March 2025

Reports: Food growing on prescription

This report highlights the findings of a short piece of research undertaken with community gardens and food growing projects in London, to create a snapshot of how Social Prescribing is perceived, how garden leaders are or want to be engaging with these services and how to overcome the barriers to more people being referred to garden-based activities.
Capital Growth | Friday 13 September 2019

News: Food Tsar Henry Dimbleby resigns, protesting lack of government action on obesity

Henry Dimbleby has resigned his position as 'food tsar', citing the Government's “insane” inaction against obesity. In an interview with the Times, he said: “Winston Churchill talked about the greatest asset a nation can have is the health of its people".  
Children's Food Campaign | Monday 20 March 2023

News: FareShare Surplus Food Summit

Sustain member FareShare have brought together the food industry and food retailers for the UK's first ever Surplus Food Summit.
Sustain | Friday 26 June 2015

News: Battle of the food campaigns

The "Veganuary" campaign has released its participation statistics for 2021 and say more than 580,000 took part. But concern over the evidence and impact of a number of food campaigns led farmers, farmer unions and bodies – such as the NFU and AHDB - to mount counter campaigns this year. A key question is what should we all be eating for a balanced and environmentally-friendly diet, and the answer is much more complicated then we might want it to be.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Thursday 25 February 2021

News: Contribute to a People's Food Policy

Food Sovereignty UK is coordinating work on a People's Food Policy for the UK, and is calling on food groups  and activists to hold workshops before 1st March, then feed back suggestions.
Sustain | Friday 11 March 2016

News: FAO and Mars work together on food safety

The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation has joined forces with global food giant Mars Incorporated to improve food safety.
Sustain | Friday 30 October 2015

News: Call for world’s largest food companies to prioritise health after new survey exposes bad practice

Action on Salt and Share Action call for world’s largest food companies to prioritise health after finding over half of UK ‘flagship’ products surveyed are ‘unhealthy’.
Sustain | Thursday 28 July 2022

News: First report from new independent food panel

The new report from IPES-Food (International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems) titled 'The New Science of Sustainable Food Systems' argues that too often food problems have been considered in isolation, rather than a joint consideration of issues including impact on health and nutrition, environmental degradation as well as power imbalances. 
Sustain | Friday 29 May 2015

News: New report highlights challenges faced by older and disabled people accessing food in their homes

Using research with people with lived experience, this new report highlights the challenges disabled and older people face accessing food and sets out key recommendations.
Food Poverty | Wednesday 23 October 2024


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