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Blog: Better Food Traders, wholesalers and the missing middle: why transparency matters

The UK’s food retail market is dominated by a handful of supermarket corporations who control over 90% of the food we buy in shops. In this guest blog, Natasha Soares from Better Food Traders explores the issues of unfair trading and a lack of transparency within UK food supply chains.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Monday 14 June 2021

News: Parents' perspectives of less healthy food and drink marketing through sport

To mark the launch of the long-awaited EURO 2020 tournament, Food Active and the Children’s Food Campaign have teamed up with a new survey to hear what parents think about the marketing of less healthy food and drink through sport.
Children's Food Campaign | Monday 14 June 2021

News: Little Veg Libraries open in Leeds to share seeds, seedlings and veg surplus

Taking a leaf from the little book libraries springing up all over the city, a new initiative by Feed Leeds is sprouting in time for the start of this growing season.
Veg Cities | Monday 14 June 2021

News: New Leeds based project highlights social connection through food growing

Growing Friendship is a new project providing seedlings, tools and other inputs, as well as training workshops for asylum seekers, refugees and people in food hardship to grow and harvest vegetables at home or other growing spaces around Leeds.
Veg Cities | Monday 14 June 2021

Reports: Australia UK trade: Ensuring high animal welfare standards in future trade deals trade deal

Sustain and Compassion in World Farming are concerned that the UK government is on a path to break its own manifesto commitment to protect the UK’s food safety, animal welfare and environmental standards from future trade deals.
Good Food Trade Campaign | Monday 14 June 2021

Blog: Can Biden serve up a solution to the UK's food challenges at the G7?

As a Cornishman it’s with some curiosity that I see my beautiful backwater thrown into the spotlight of a major political event at a critical time for so many global issues. Whilst the pandemic won’t stray too far from the top of the agenda, much emphasis is being put on the UK’s desire to use it as a platform for commitments to tackle the climate emergency. And just this week the issue of trade and Northern Irish borders has returned as the proverbial fly buzzing around Boris’s Cornish cream tea. But what has this got to do with food and farming (beyond the scones, jam and clotted cream)?
Good Food Trade Campaign | Friday 11 June 2021

Blog: Food insecurity reveals baked-in institutional racism

To find policy decisions and mechanisms that create structural and institutional racism in the UK, we need look no further than the disproportionate impact of household food insecurity on people from ethnic minority communities.
Right to Food | Friday 11 June 2021

Blog: What tools are needed to build resilient food poverty alliances?

The Food Power Festival was a four-day online festival for food poverty alliances, food partnerships, local authorities and other allies working to tackle the root causes of food poverty. In this blog, Food Power’s Cecily Spelling, summarises lessons from day one where sessions explored the tools needed to build resilient food poverty alliances.
Food Power | Thursday 10 June 2021

Events: Foraging and Herbal Walk and Talk

Join Rasheeqa Ahmad from Hedge Herbs to discover what's growing in your neighbourhood.
Capital Growth | Wednesday 9 June 2021

Events: Remote working: How to get the most out of virtual meetings and remote participatory workshops

Sustainable Food Places | Wednesday 9 June 2021