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News: New report shows rising cost of a healthy diet

New research carried out by the Overseas Development Institute has compared retail prices in emerging economies (Brazil, China, Korea and Mexico) as well as the UK and the USA. They found that people in newly-rich countries face price hikes of up to 91% in fruit and vegetables compared with a fall in processed foods like cakes and biscuits. The ODI argues this is fuelling obesity epidemics in these countries. These patterns follow a trend set by the USA and the UK where researchers found that ice cream prices have fallen by 50% since 1980 while fruit and vegetable prices have increased by 199%. See also Sustain's work on food poverty.
Sustain | Friday 15 May 2015

News: LEAF recognised by sustainability standards association

Sustain member LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) has achieved full membership of ISEAL (International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling). LEAF promotes Integrated Farm Management to ensure that all LEAF Marque certified farms are producing food to high environmental standards. Their criteria include soil management and fertility, crop health and protection, pollution control, energy efficiency, wildlife and landscape management and animal husbandry. ISEAL is a non-governmental organisation whose mission is to strengthen sustainability standards.See a full list of Sustain members here.
Sustain | Friday 15 May 2015

News: Real Bread Week in the news

Real Bread Week got off to a flying start in the media, with articles featuring Sustain's Real Bread Campaign in the Financial Times, the Daily Express, BBC Good Food magazine and The Independent. Real Bread Week offers real bread makers the chance to celebrate their craft and real bread lovers the opportunity to support their local real bread bakery. Find out more about how you can celebrate Real Bread Week here.
Real Bread Campaign | Friday 15 May 2015

News: Jamie Oliver launches Food Revolution Day

Jamie Oliver has launched a world-wide Food Revolution Day to campaign to put compulsory practical food education on the school curriculum. Jamie wants to see the leaders and governments of all G20 countries to sign up to educating children about food so they can learn the basic skills needed to lead heatlhier, happier lives. You can sign the petition, become an ambassador, download a free lesson plan or even listen to Jamie's Food Revolution rap with Ed Sheeran and others.
Sustain | Friday 15 May 2015

News: Food Standards Agency's Chicken Challenge

The FSA are urging the public to take up the Chicken Challenge as part of Food Safety Week which starts on the 18th May. The Chicken Challenge aims to help people cut their chances of getting campylobacter food poisoning. They want you to promise to store raw chicken separately from other food, not wash raw chicken, wash everything that's touched raw chicken and cook chicken properly. The FSA aims to halve the levels of food poisoning from campylobacter by the end of 2015. That could mean over 100,000 fewer people getting sick. However, campaigners like Professor Tim Lang from (Sustain member) the Centre for Food Policy have urged the FSA to do more to clean up the food industry and the poultry trade by tackling campylobacter in their flocks.
Sustain | Friday 15 May 2015

News: Pig welfare faces EU threat

Sustain member Compassion in World Farming have launched a campaign to stop the EU defining fully slatted flooring for pigs as the best available technique for intensive pig farming. CIWF argue that fully slatted floors are not compatible with good animal welfare. European law requires pigs to have materials like straw in which they can explore, rest comfortably and nest before giving birth. Fully slatted floors can make the provision of straw impossible. In addition fully slatted floors are already banned or will be phased out in the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland.
Sustain | Friday 15 May 2015

News: Soil erosion threatens global food security

A new study recently published in the journal Science says in many places soils are being lost faster than they are naturally being made. At the same time increased pressure on farmland from crops for non-food uses such as biofuels may create a shortage of inorganic fertiliser. The paper urges more efficient food distribution and better soil management.
Sustain | Friday 15 May 2015

News: Closer to an Honest Crust Act in Ireland?

Tying in with the Real Bread Campaign's call for an Honest Crust Act, The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has issued new guidance on the use of words often seen in loaf marketing.
Sustain | Thursday 14 May 2015

Page: Real Bread The Uprising: 2015

Real Bread The Uprising invites domestic, community, therapeutic and professional bakers and all non-baking dough nuts to hear from leading Real Bread bakers; meet and chat with fellow breadheads; and share ideas, information and lunch.
Real Bread Campaign

Reports: Growing Health case study: Plant a Seed

The Plant a Seed - Grow Well project supports health professionals working in residential and other community care settings across North West London. It provides them with the knowledge and confidence to develop therapeutic gardening projects within their own setting.
Growing Health | Tuesday 12 May 2015