Reports: Sustain’s diversity style guide
Our guide to writing about, portraying and providing a platform for diversity and racial justice in the food and farming system.
Sustain | Wednesday 5 April 2023
Reports: Sustain's consultation response to the Government's technical consultation on advertising
Sustain responds to the Government's technical consultation: Introducing further advertising restrictions on TV and online for products high in fat, salt or sugar
Children's Food Campaign | Tuesday 4 April 2023
Reports: UK accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)
The UK Government has set its sights on joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement on Trans Pacific Partnership in 2023. This pacific trade deal is one of the world’s largest Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with eleven member countries, including a number of major agricultural producers such as Canada and Mexico. Having been conceived and designed by the US Government (which eventually decided not to join the deal), CPTPP is a US trade deal in all but name.
Sustain | Wednesday 29 March 2023
Reports: Good Food for All Londoners 2022: Tracking council action on food
The Good Food for All Londoners report reviews council action on food under two key themes: tackling the root causes of food poverty and supporting residents to buy and eat affordable, healthy and climate-friendly food.
London Food Link | Monday 27 March 2023
Reports: UK-India trade deal
The UK is in trade negotiations with India. The Government has already negotiated a trade deal with Australia which will see trade liberalised in agrifood products, some of which are produced to lower standards than is legal in the UK. Sustain has concerns about the deal with India, which permits higher usage of pesticides and whose exports regularly containing high (and even illegal) levels of pesticide residues.
Sustain | Tuesday 14 March 2023
Reports: Sustain gives evidence to the UK Trade and Business Commission
In this submission we consider the impact of trade policy on the food and farming sectors. This includes food prices, exports, labour needs, pesticide standards, antibiotic policy and supply chains. We also outline the need for core standards, a strategy for trade policy and the need for greater parliamentary scrutiny over trade deals.
Sustain | Thursday 16 February 2023
Reports: How councils can embed participation into their work to combat food poverty and build a better food system
This briefing paper sets out our preliminary findings on what councils can do to co-design or co-produce their work on better food systems with residents facing poverty.
Food Poverty | Thursday 9 February 2023
Reports: Increasing agroecological farming in the Cardiff region: an initial exploration
A new Fringe Farming report from our Cardiff partner, Food Cardiff (part of Food Sense Wales), presents the main barriers, opportunities and potential actions for growing the movement for peri-urban agroecology around Cardiff. As a result of the report’s publication, Food Cardiff and partners will convene a Fringe Farming working group, which will look at how to take forward this work across the Cardiff Capital Region.
Fringe Farming | Thursday 9 February 2023
Reports: Spring Budget 2023
In this pre Spring budget submission, we focus on considerations for the Treasury in four main areas: health, education, environment and rural affairs, and business.
Sustain | Tuesday 7 February 2023
Reports: Retained EU Legislation Bill briefing: second reading
The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (REUL) puts at risk thousands of laws that cover the protection of the environment, food and farming standards and public health. It also has implications for laws that protect our rights as citizens, consumers and workers.
REUL | Thursday 2 February 2023
