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News: Green Brexit: Securing the future for farming and the environment

Wildlife and Countryside Link’s Agriculture Working Group, working with the Soil Association and Sustain have set out our ideas for a Sustainable Farming and Land Management policy in England, with a short briefing summarising the contents of a more detailed discussion paper.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Monday 2 October 2017

News: World hunger levels rise again

After a prolonged decline, the number of chronically undernourished people in the world increased last year, according to the latest statistics from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation.
Food Poverty | Friday 29 September 2017

News: Slave labour exposed in global food production

New statistics show that 16 million people were in forced labour in the global private economy in 2016. Among cases where the type of work was known, more than 1 in 10 worked in agriculture or fishing.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Friday 29 September 2017

News: Shocking film emerges from Two Sisters chicken factory

The Food Standards Agency has launched an investigation after undercover filming showed workers changing date-of-kill labels, repacking rejected meat and retrieving meat from the floor -- all apparent breaches of hygiene and safety laws.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Friday 29 September 2017

News: Chicken, fries... and hold the antibiotics

A coalition of organisations in the US is using the formidable buying power of America's fast food industry to leverage reductions in antibiotic use along meat supply chains.
Save Our Antibiotics | Friday 29 September 2017

News: Huge food waste occurs in the field

The waste-reduction agency WRAP has conducted its first investigation into food waste on farms, looking at two commercially important crops -- lettuce and strawberries. It found significant waste, and big differences between farms.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Friday 29 September 2017

News: Pesticides need bigger and better regulation

An article co-authored by Defra's Chief Scientific Officer argues that better regulation is needed to control how pesticides are used and affect the environment at a landscape scale.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Friday 29 September 2017

News: Community Food get-together in Glasgow

Sustain member Community Food and Health Scotland is hosting its annual networking event in Glasgow this year, on Monday 25th October.
Children's Food Campaign | Friday 29 September 2017

News: Gus Schumacher: a tribute from Sustain

All of us at Sustain are sorry to have received news of the death Gus Schumacher, an inspirational food campaigner from the US.
Food Poverty | Friday 29 September 2017

News: London’s prize veggies celebrated as part of Capital Growths’ Urban Harvest day

Capital Growth’s 8th autumn open day took place on Saturday 16 September at 27 flourishing community food gardens across London.
Capital Growth | Friday 29 September 2017