Reports: Covid-19 and Children’s Food: Parents’ Priorities for Building Back Better
This briefing summarises insights from over 750 parents across the UK on how life under lockdown during Covid-19 impacted on their children's food intake and preferences, and their views on future policies for tackling food insecurity, improving the school food offer and building a healthier food environment for children.
Children's Food Campaign | Tuesday 8 September 2020
Reports: Tackling Food Poverty Together
A guide to using the Food Power Collective Impact Tracker.
Food Poverty | Wednesday 12 August 2020
Reports: Sustain briefing: Fringe Farming in London
This briefing presents the social, economic and environmental case for more commercial, agro-ecological fruit and vegetable production in London’s urban fringe.
Fringe Farming | Tuesday 11 August 2020
Reports: Growing Connections: Guide to an inclusive and welcoming community garden
This guide outlines the principles to age-friendly and inclusive volunteering, shares best practice and provides a tool to self-review community food projects’ inclusivity. Growing Connections is a project of Sustain, funded by the Centre for Ageing Better and DCMS through the Age-friendly and inclusive volunteering programme.
Capital Growth | Monday 3 August 2020
Reports: Food and Covid-19: How local authorities can support recovery and resilience
Guidance on the principles, processes and partnerships that contribute to a strong council response, as well as suggested actions for improving food access.
Food Poverty | Tuesday 28 July 2020
Reports: Pester Power or Parent Power?
Parents’ views of child-friendly characters on food and drink packaging.
Children's Food Campaign | Thursday 16 July 2020
Reports: Meals on wheels for the 21st century
A report exploring meals on wheels services in London before, during and after Covid-19.
Sustain | Wednesday 15 July 2020
Reports: Toxic Trade: How trade deals threaten to weaken UK pesticide standards
This is the first of a series of 'Toxic Trade' reports and it compares existing UK pesticide standards with those of the US, Australia and India. The report highlights that Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with these countries pose a significant threat to consumer protection, as well as to human health and the environment. It provides a set of recommendations and specific language for use in developing FTAs so that pesticide standards are maintained.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Tuesday 9 June 2020
Reports: Good Food Enterprises adapting to lockdown: survey report
Sustain’s Food Coops Network and London Food Link surveyed food enterprises to gather insight into how they had adapted to Covid-19 and the challenges they were facing.
Sustain | Friday 5 June 2020
Reports: A green and pressured land: making sense of the many competing demands for rural and peri-urban land
This new briefing "A Green and Pressured Land - making sense of the many competing demands for rural and peri-urban land" looks at the many pressures on land in the UK and our use of land overseas, including the impact of agriculture and the types of food consumed.
Sustain | Wednesday 3 June 2020