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Reports: Agricultural labour in the UK

The UK’s agricultural workforce has always been on the frontline of change. As an industrialising country the UK went through the world’s first technology-driven economic transition, and in the present day a further wave of innovation in agri-tech looks poised to decimate the workforce once again. This trend will continue to be reinforced by the government’s policy of promoting agri-technology and encouraging trade patterns that tend to import high-labour products and export low-labour products.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Monday 3 October 2016

News: Great news for organics

Organic sales go up, and the otherwise grim State of Nature report finds that organic farms host 50% more wildlife than their conventional neighbours
Sustain | Friday 30 September 2016

News: Plunkett awards for community food businesses

Do you know of (or participate in) a rural community business that provides a valuable service to your locality? The Plunkett Foundation would like to hear from you
Sustain | Friday 30 September 2016

News: UK Government 'chooses not to apply a ceiling' to CAP payments in England

Statement from the EC claims Government could have avoided controversial payouts to wealthy landowners
Sustain | Friday 30 September 2016

News: Nestle and Coke unlikely winners in corporate sustainability index

The global beverage behemoths may have perfect scores on paper -- but campaigners remain unconvinced by their sustainability in practice
Sustain | Friday 30 September 2016

News: 'Intention' is to protect EU nationals working in UK food sector

The Defra Secretary of State tries to be reassuring -- but admits no-one knows how the negotiations will go
Sustain | Friday 30 September 2016

News: New report highlights huge social and economic costs of malnutrition

The risk that poor diets pose to mortality and morbidity is now greater than the combined risks of unsafe sex, alcohol, drug and tobacco use, at a cost equivalent to a global financial crisis every year
Sustain | Friday 30 September 2016

News: The hidden horrors of palm oil

The world's most widely consumed vegetable oil is often just an ingredient listed in small type on a label -- but its human and environmental costs are enormous, as a new report lays bare
Sustain | Friday 30 September 2016

News: Food Research Collaboration launches online resource on food after Brexit

Website will host reports, talks, blogs and more, from academia and civil society, to monitor and shape discussions of how British food and farming will look outside the EU
Sustain | Friday 30 September 2016

News: Local health campaigners hand out toothbrushes and tell Labour Conference: ‘Tax the Can and help people to Give Up Loving Pop’

Today, Monday 26 September, Food Active, a Liverpool-based healthy weight campaign, is handing out free toothbrushes to Labour Party Conference delegates and confronting the soft drinks industry's attempts to block a sugary drinks tax. This activity is in response to the British Soft Drinks Association’s sponsorship of a fringe meeting about tackling obesity, and their lobbying at the Conference and to MPs to stop the Government’s proposed Soft Drinks Industry Levy.
Children's Food Campaign | Monday 26 September 2016