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News: Sustain calls on new minister to support small business by extending the role of Groceries Watchdog

It is exactly one year since the Groceries Code Adjudicator consultation (1) closed and yet we still haven't had a response from the Government. Today Sustain welcomes the new small businesses minister to post and calls on him to put this at the top of his new to do list.
Sustain | Wednesday 10 January 2018

News: Have Coke lost their bottle?

Sustain responds to press reports on Coca-Cola's plans to change the sizing and prices of some of their products ahead of the implementation of the Sugary Drinks Tax.
Sugary Drinks Duty | Wednesday 10 January 2018

News: Will the Government get drastic on plastic?

Ahead of the Government's 25 Year Environment Plan released tomorrow, Sustain respond with some of the issues they hope will be addressed relating to food and farming. To help keep track of this long wish list - they've produced a bingo card and will be hoping for a full house.
Sustain | Wednesday 10 January 2018

News: Interest free loans for organic businesses

The Organic Research Centre is launching a new fund offering loans from £5,000 to £25,000. The Dean Organic Fund will benefit small scale organic farmers and food producers who want to expand their businesses.
Organic Sector Development | Wednesday 10 January 2018

News: Oil money funds research into nuclear farming

A United Nations agency receives a $600,000 (£445,000) grant to research nuclear and isotopic farming. Nuclear techniques in agriculture include sterilising insect pests with gamma radiation, increasing crop production by exposing plants to radiation to change their genetic make-up and increasing livestock production by using isotopes to study hormones.
Climate Change and Nature | Wednesday 10 January 2018

News: Food Ethics Council launches new online magazine

The free magazine - ‘For Whom?’ - questions the food and farming research agenda. The special edition brings together opinions from 32 experts including Marion Nestle and Professor Tim Lang.
Food Facts | Wednesday 10 January 2018

Blog: Brexit means bucket-loads of challenges for farming

The January 2018 Oxford Real Farming Conference will go down in collective memory as a milestone in our movement’s history, filled to the rafters with 900 food and farming colleagues, questions, conversation and debate. The event featured a Q&A with Defra Secretary Michael Gove, and seven lively sessions on the implications of Brexit for food and farming, stewarded by Sustain.
Good Food Trade Campaign | Tuesday 9 January 2018

News: Sustain welcomes back Michael Gove as Secretary of State for Defra

Prime Minister Theresa May has reshuffled her Cabinet but Secretary of State for Defra Michael Gove has remained in post. Sustain welcomes his continued tenure, but also highlights the need to keep up the pressure to turn his promises into reality.
Good Food Trade Campaign | Tuesday 9 January 2018

News: Sustain slams Wetherspoons Chairman's claims on cheap food post-Brexit

Sustain questions Wetherspoon Chairman Tim Martin's opinion that food prices will fall after Brexit, and argues that - in any case - cheap food would come at a cost - to food quality, British jobs and British farmers.
Good Food Trade Campaign | Tuesday 9 January 2018

News: Bad trade deals would be ‘biggest peacetime threat’ to UK food security

An inquiry by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Agroecology for Food and Farming shows an overriding concern that food security, environmental protection and welfare standards may be significantly weakened by Brexit.
Good Food Trade Campaign | Tuesday 9 January 2018