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News: CPRE calls for farming to 'find a new balance with nature'

The Campaign to Protect Rural England adds its voice to the chorus calling for Brexit to be used as an opportunity to reform agriculture. It must better protect the environment, help farmers thrive and reconnect consumers with food production
Sustain | Sunday 21 August 2016

News: New champion for City Farms and Community Gardens

Veteran food campaigner Charlie Powell appointed director of Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens.
Sustain | Sunday 21 August 2016

News: Trading Standards budget cuts threaten infant formula marketing control

Campaign group Baby Milk Action warns that reduced numbers of Trading Standards officers mean retailers can break marketing codes for breastmilk substitutes with little fear of sanction.
Sustain | Sunday 21 August 2016

News: Food charity appeals for fruit donors

As the new school year starts, Sustain member FareShare is calling for more fresh fruit suppliers to provide surplus produce, to help hundreds of breakfast clubs give children a healthy start to their day.
Sustain | Sunday 21 August 2016

News: Major study links neonicotinoid seed dressing with wild bee decline

Research provides first evidence that wild bee populations, like commercially bred pollinators, are adversely affected by widespread use of neonicotinoid pesticides.
Sustain | Saturday 20 August 2016

News: Palm oil plantations cause irreversible harm to forest ecologies

Study finds that 11 out of 14 'ecosystem functions' provided by forests are lost, some of them irretrievably, when forests are cleared to make way for palm oil plantations.
Sustain | Saturday 20 August 2016

News: Scottish cheese maker accuses watchdogs of 'malicious prejudice'

A row has broken out over claims by public health authorities that a recent E.coli outbreak was linked to the use of unpasteurised milk.
Sustain | Saturday 20 August 2016

News: Government's obesity plan: a feeble response to the children's health crisis

After a year of waiting, the government’s Childhood Obesity Strategy has at last been published. But this lightweight document contains little to excite those who want to see the UK taking a lead on addressing a health problem that threatens to make our children’s lives shorter, clouded by avoidable disease, and to engulf our national health service.
Sustain | Thursday 18 August 2016

News: Children's health advocates dismayed by Government obesity plan

"After a year’s delay, children and taxpayers deserve much more from the Government than a 13-page report of mainly recycled commitments and voluntary measures."
Children's Food Campaign | Thursday 18 August 2016

News: Hospital food campaigners 'underwhelmed' by obesity plan

"The Campaign for Better Hospital Food is concerned that the Government’s plans to tackle childhood obesity, published today in the obesity plan, are underwhelming at best."
Sustain | Thursday 18 August 2016