Reports: Children's Nutrition Action Plan 2001
The Children's Nutrition Action Plan resulted from a roundtable seminar of children's health experts, convened in 2001 to review what policies would be needed to control the rising epidemics of diet-related disease prevalent in the UK and other wealthy countries. The report focuses on improving children's health and diets, as a key way of preventing unnecessary and debilitating diseases caused by consumption of unhealthy foods.
Children's Food Campaign | Tuesday 6 February 2001
Reports: Making Links: A Toolkit for Local Food Projects (revised edition)
This revised and updated pack is stuffed with information and inspiration for starting up or developing a successful community food project to improve access to good quality, affordable food.
Food Poverty | Monday 1 January 2001
Reports: Food Poverty: Policy Options for the new Millennium
This report revisits the issues raised in the first Sustain report Food Poverty: What are the policy options? published in 1998. It looks at what has changed, where there has been progress - and where progress has been lacking. Most important, it sets out what is needed now, early in the new Millennium, to ensure that no-one in the UK is denied access to a varied and nutritious diet.
Food Access Network | Monday 1 January 2001
Reports: Community Food Projects: A directory of projects on the Food Poverty Database
Published in 2003, this directory lists over 260 community projects from the Food Poverty Projects Database. The database is managed by Sustain's Food Poverty Network, in collaboration with the Health Development Agency.
Food Access Network | Monday 1 January 2001
Reports: TV Dinners: What's being served up by the Advertisers
This report demonstrates how the advertising of unhealthy foods during children's TV continues to conflict with official dietary recommendations. National and international perspectives are presented, health implications explored and industry arguments exposed. The recommendations aim to protect children from unfair advertising and promotional activities.
Children's Food Campaign | Monday 1 January 2001
Reports: Myth and Reality - Organic vs Non-organic : The Facts
This booklet examines some of the issues around organic food and its production. It takes up the challenge of answering the critics - who range from companies defending agri-business, through to the heads national food authorities and some academics. It exposes the misleading and erroneous accusations made against organic food, and provides the facts that prove them wrong.
Organic Sector Development | Monday 1 January 2001
Reports: A Battle in store. A discussion of the social impact of the major UK supermarkets
Sustain's report reveals the complex effects of supermarkets on society and why the social and environmental problems they create, the unfair competition for smaller and independent retailers, and the unfair terms of trade they impose on suppliers, need solutions far beyond what the Competition Commission and DTI were proposing at the time of its publication (2000).
Supermarkets, health and sustainability | Wednesday 1 November 2000
Reports: Too Much and Too Little? Debates on surplus food redistribution
Surplus food, such as food approaching its sell-by date or agricultural produce taken off the market to stabilise prices, is redistributed to poor people through homelessness projects, charities, local authorities and schools. But is this a good solution or could it perpetuate the problems of waste and poverty? Aiming to stimulate the debate, this report looks at the variety of schemes in Britain the US and Europe, and examines the policy options.
Food Access Network | Saturday 1 January 2000
Reports: Discussion paper: Sugar, Trade and Europe
A discussion paper on the impact of international sugar policies on poor countries, highlighting the effects of market intervention in distorting world sugar markets. Protected internal markets and preferential trade agreements within national and supranational bodies have led to low world sugar prices, high public expenditure, excessive production and dumping of subsidised exports which undermines of many many poor countries. Recommendations for reform are discussed.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Saturday 1 January 2000
Reports: City Harvest: The feasibility of growing more food in London
This report on the feasibility of food production in cities, taking London as its example, is relevant to all urban areas. It assess how, and to what extent, urban food growing could make a contribution to social, economic and environmental health, and community and educational development. The book covers urban food systems and an overview of existing food growing activities. With inspiring examples and case studies from the UK and abroad, the report presents a conclusion and detailed recommendations, and includes maps, a glossary, and sources of more information.
London Food Link | Friday 1 January 1999
