Reports: Hands off our 5-a-day! Healthy eating claims for fatty and sugary foods are taking the biscuit
Over the past 10 years, Sustain has worked with the Food Commission and other concerned health organisations to defend the 5-a-day message from inappropriate use by the manufacturers and marketers of processed foods, to protect the health of the nation. However, a decade on, Sustain has started to witness a return of the 5-a-day message being used on junk foods, and on products that contain a derisory amount of fruit and vegetables. The report Hands off our 5-a-day! reports on misappropriation of the 5-a-day message, reacts to a Channel 4 Dispatches programme showing that a chocolate biscuit can count as half of one portion of your 5-a-day, according to the food industry, and makes recommendations for government to take back control of this precious health message.
Labelling for sustainability | Wednesday 18 July 2012
Reports: Providing good food in schools... How to do it with, or without, local authority help
This report provides information and recommendations to schools and local authorities about economically viable ways of providing good quality food. Though most relevant to London boroughs and schools, this report may also be helpful to local authorities and schools across England.
Good Food on the Public Plate | Thursday 5 July 2012
Reports: Sustainable fish advice for traders and suppliers
Published in summer 2012, this briefing paper gives straightforward information to suppliers about the sustainable fish standards that the London 2012 Olympic organisers, as well as a rapidly increasing number of caterers, retailers and restaurants are adopting.
Sustainable Fish | Sunday 1 July 2012
Reports: A Growing Trade - a guide for community groups growing food to sell in our towns and cities
This Local Action on Food report highlights the commercial opportunities for community grown food and showcases initiatives that are doing it already. The report shows examples of food that is being produced as close to the market place as possible and the opportunities for community food growing projects to make links more widely in the community as well as generate income to contribute towards project costs and to lift the ambitions of the people involved.
Capital Growth | Friday 8 June 2012
Reports: A Healthy Profit - a simple guide to pricing the food you make or grow
This report aims to help community food organisations price their produce, to cover their costs and make enough healthy profit to fund other social and environmental activities. It explains why this is important both for them individually and for the alternative food system as a whole.
Making Local Food Work | Thursday 7 June 2012
Reports: Growing Communities: manual of monitoring and evaluation
This report details the way in which the pioneering social enterprise, Growing Communities, monitors and evaluates its work. As well as explaining the criteria they use, it also explores why they think this is an important way of helping the community food sector improve their enterprises, whilst also providing evidence of their social and environmental benefits.
Making Local Food Work | Tuesday 22 May 2012
Reports: Growing Manchester(s) Veg People - a guide to setting up a growers' and buyers' co-operative
This practical guide details the creation and development of an innovative growers' and buyers' co-operative aiming to increase the availability of organic, low-carbon food for Manchester, provided in a way that is fair for growers and buyers. It includes template documents to enable others to replicate the co-operative for themselves.
Making Local Food Work | Tuesday 15 May 2012
Reports: The story of Moss Brook Growers - how to set up a horticultural enterprise from scratch
This manual gives a step by step guide to how Moss Brook Growers set up a mixed horticultural social enterprise from scratch. It will be invaluable reading to any group or individual looking to grow and sell fruit and vegetables.
Making Local Food Work | Tuesday 15 May 2012
Reports: Checkouts checked out - how supermarkets promote junk food to children and their parents
Results of a survey of national supermarkets and high-street chains. It found that food and drinks are regularly displayed at the checkouts and in the queuing areas in these stores, and the vast majority of the products are unhealthy and often within easy reach of children.
Children's Food Campaign | Wednesday 25 April 2012
Reports: Roots to work: Developing employability through community food-growing and urban agriculture
Published by City & Guilds in partnership with Sustain's Capital Growth project, this research report shows that urban food growing is an effective route to employability. Community food-growing groups and other urban agriculture projects can provide community-based learning and training opportunities, and are an effective way to develop employability for people, particularly those who face difficulties in finding and keeping work. The report identifies the support that projects need to develop employability among their participants.
Capital Growth | Friday 30 March 2012
