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Page: Protecting food growing sites

Dive into our resources to learn how to use planning designations and other ways to protect your growing space, created in collaboration with CPRE London. Learn how to raise the profile and save your food growing space from development.
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News: Food for Life promotes healthy eating and sustainable fish

In 2012, Food for Life Catering Mark standards have been updated to require promotion of healthy eating and exclusion of endangered fish. A flexible points-based system also encourages caterers to use more sustainable food.
Food Legacy | Monday 30 January 2012

News: Join in the conversation on GM food and farming

Sustain member Beyond GM are asking organisations to complete a short survey by 22 May. The survey will ‘take the temperature’ of understanding and priorities among stakeholder organisations, and across the food, farming and environmental sectors.  
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Monday 11 May 2020

Blog: When a network becomes a movement... Sustainable Food Cities

Sustainable Food Cities has come of age. Over 30% of food eaten in this country is within places in the network. Justifiably it now wants more recognition, and has written to food and farming Minister to offer its help in the coming turbulence of post Brexit food and farming policy. Ben Reynolds traces this transition of a network finding its voice.
Sustainable Food Places | Monday 19 June 2017

News: New tools for measuring food impacts and policies

A Food Realities Index and a Food Barometer will provide data to help the Food Ethics Council hold UK policy-makers to account.
Sustain | Friday 11 November 2016

Events: Community food growing during Covid-19

A webinar organised by Sustain for Capital Growth and Good to Grow gardens and food growing networks to share latest updates and developments, how gardens and networks are responding and adapting to growing during Covid-19 and identify areas for support and collaboration.
Capital Growth | Tuesday 12 May 2020

News: Industry to double food waste redistribution

The food industry has set itself a new target for the amount of food it 'redistributes' to charities and other recipients, which is to be welcomed -- although it leaves systemic problems with oversupply and food poverty unaddressed.
Sustain | Friday 3 February 2017

Blog: Community Building: 11 resources for developing thriving local food movements

What do our local areas need in place to resource and amplify public action on healthy and sustainable food? Vera Zakharov envisions a dynamic food landscape that can catalyse grassroots initiatives and support food citizens.
Sustainable Food Places | Wednesday 8 July 2020

Reports: Sweet and Sour (Food Facts No. 10)

Consumers in Europe pay inflated prices for their sugar whilst the excess production from Europe is dumped on the world market, depressing prices and causing economic hardship in many poor countries. Meanwhile European beet farmers are still paid large subsidies. This report also reveals that hidden sugars in our food are on the increase.
Food Facts | Tuesday 30 September 2003

News: Food banks a short-term Band-Aid

A new paper from the Food Research Collaboration argues that using wasted food to feed hungry people distracts from underlying problems of surplus production and food insecurity.
Sustain | Friday 27 January 2017


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