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Blog: Roots to Work: The urban apiculturist

We pick up the buzz from founder and keeper Dale Gibson.
London Food Link | Monday 19 June 2017

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: Good Food Nation Bill stirs debate

Scotland's pioneering Good Food Nation Bill is still at an early stage, but it is already prompting Members of the Scottish Parliament to ask questions about the sort of food supply they want and can achieve.
Children's Food Campaign | Friday 16 June 2017

News: Wales belatedly includes obesity in Public Health Bill

Having originally focussed on tobacco and the provision of public toilets, the Public Health (Wales) Bill has been amended to require the Government to produce an obesity strategy.
Sustain | Friday 16 June 2017

News: UK market for tropical prawns is killing thousands of threatened marine turtles - WWF demand prevention devices

On World Sea Turtle Day a report reveals than an estimated 29,000 marine turtles are killed each year in tropical prawn trawls that export to the EU, with the UK being the biggest market WWF is calling on the UK government to require all tropical prawn trawlers exporting into the UK use Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs)
Sustainable Fish | Friday 16 June 2017

News: Surprise choice sends Gove to Defra

Michael Gove, MP for Surrey Heath and prominent Brexiteer, has replaced Andrea Leadsom as Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the post-election Government reshuffle.
Sustain | Friday 16 June 2017

News: Do farm animal foetuses feel pain at slaughter?

The European Food Safety Authority has decided that they probaly do not, even in the final third of gestation, but also notes a lack of evidence and calls for measures to ensure fewer animals are pregnant at slaughter.
Sustain | Friday 16 June 2017

News: UK children fare badly in global study of food insecurity

A new report from Unicef finds that 10% of British under-15s live in households that experience severe food insecurity -- which means they sometimes go hungry, have to skip meals and have parents or carers who worry about being able to provide food.
Sustain | Friday 16 June 2017

News: Ireland restricts food marketing to fight obesity

Ireland claims that its new voluntary Code of Practice limiting the marketing of foods high in salt, sugar and saturated fats will be a 'world first'.
Sustain | Friday 16 June 2017

News: Eating the planet to death

'Extinction and Livestock' is the theme of Compassion in World Farming's autumn conference, with an impressive array of participants already lined up, and opportunies for networking and discussion.
Sustain | Friday 16 June 2017