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News: New food and drink buying standard

The Prime Minister has announced a new food and drink buying standard – ‘The Plan for Public Procurement’. The voluntary Plan involves the use of a scorecard and an e-marketplace and focuses on: provision of a toolkit which enables food procurers to consider a variety of factors when making decisions about procurement; working with industry, procurers, researchers and farmers to support opportunities for British grown produce and food within the public procurement market; ongoing work to develop the toolkit through five different working groups covering procurers, suppliers, research and technology bodies (focusing on innovation), assurance schemes and Local Enterprise Partnerships. Public sector buyers will now judge potential suppliers against five key criteria: how food is produced and whether the food was produced locally; the health and nutritional content of food purchased; the resource efficiency of producing the food, such as water and energy use and waste production; how far the food bought meets government’s socio-economic priorities such as involvement of SMEs.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

Reports: Growing the Good Food Movement

A guide for food partnerships to support more people to get involved in community food action
Sustainable Food Places | Wednesday 13 April 2022

News: What can businesses do for sustainable food security?

WWF and Food Ethics Council's report on business and sustainable food security is out.
Sustain | Friday 11 September 2015

News: US passes Global Food Security Act

UN food agency leaders welcome a U.S. law aimed at boosting sustainable food production, nutrition and resilience
Sustain | Sunday 14 August 2016

News: Urban Food Fortnight 2017

London Food Link set to celebrate the capital’s Urban Food Heroes this September.
Sustain | Wednesday 9 August 2017

News: Australian Fair Food Week

The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance has announced its Fair Food Week which runs from October 16 to 25 2015.
Sustain | Friday 25 September 2015

News: Time to talk about food work

A new Briefing Paper from Sustain member the Food Research Collaboration looks at work trends in the UK food manufacturing sector.
Sustain | Thursday 25 May 2017

News: Rosie Boycott promises good food for London police, transport workers and the fire brigade

Sustain congratulates the Greater London Authority (GLA) for adopting a healthy and sustainable food policy for catering provided to London's police, transport workers, fire brigade and GLA staff.
Good Food on the Public Plate | Tuesday 7 December 2010

News: A festival of food thinking in Nottingham

An exciting line-up of speakers promises Food for Thought at the School of Artisan Food's annual weekend of lectures.
Sustain | Friday 13 January 2017

Page: Develop an alliance and action plan to tackle food poverty

Tackling the root causes of food poverty locally requires a coordinated approach. This can increase expertise, resource and capacity to ensure no one goes hungry and prevent organisations or projects from being overwhelmed by the scale of the problem.
Food Poverty

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