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News: Defra harnesses British Food to drive up exports

Environment Secretary Elizabeth Truss has announced that 2016 will be the Year of British Food and will see the launch of the Great British Food Unit which will be run by Defra and UKTI.
Sustain | Sunday 8 November 2015

Blog: Consumers are ready for food companies to change their recipes

In this week’s Recipe for Change guest blog we hear from Shefalee Loth, Nutritionist and Principal Researcher at Which? and a Sustain Trustee. She shares the role that food and drinks companies can play in producing tasty, affordable food that doesn’t cost our health.
Children's Food Campaign | Wednesday 27 March 2024

News: EU votes to do away with unfair trading in the food supply chain

On 25 October the European Parliament voted for a new law to do away with unfair trading in the food supply chain.
Sustain | Tuesday 6 November 2018

Blog: Food and farming in 2019 – what’s going to happen?

The Agriculture Bill, a new Environmental Land Management scheme, the development of a National Food Strategy and increasing climate breakdown – all these lie in store for us in 2019. In a time of Brexit uncertainty, sustainable farming coordinator Vicki Hird looks to the year ahead and prospects for better outcomes for our food supply, farmers and the environment.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Monday 17 December 2018

News: First pictures: Sustainable food on London 2012 menus

Sustainable food on London 2012 menus includes Fairtrade, Red Tractor and Marine Stewardship Council logos to show Olympic visitors their food is from ethical, British and sustainable marine sources - a first for any Olympic or Paralympic Games!
Food Legacy | Monday 23 July 2012

Article: Roots to work: The Women’s Food Champion

Mex is co-founder of Women in the Food Industry – an initiative working to bring together and shine a spotlight on inspiring women working in food.
London Food Link | Tuesday 2 February 2021

Reports: Planning sustainable cities for community food growing

For the first time, this guide brings together in one place examples of planning policies around the UK that support community food growing. It is aimed primarily at planning authorities to help them to use food growing as a way of creating healthy communities, itself a specific recommendation within the Planning Practice Guidance that goes with the National Planning Policy Framework for England, but a principle that is relevant across the UK.
Planning Food Cities | Wednesday 9 April 2014

News: ITV investigation into junk food at high street checkouts

An ITV Tonight investigation has found non-food retailers continue to promote sweets and chocolates at their checkouts. The findings - which back up Children's Food Campaign's repeated complaints about the practice - were featured as part of a documentary on the Government's forthcoming childhood obesity strategy, aired on ITV on 25 February.
Children's Food Campaign | Monday 14 March 2016

News: Private Members' Bill on Sugar in Food and Drink

Geraint Davies MP's Private Members' Bill on Sugar in Food and Drinks (Targets, Labelling and Advertising) is scheduled to have a Second Reading in the House of Commons. The Bill would require the Secretary of State to set targets for sugar content in food and drinks; to provide that sugar content on food and drink labelling be represented in terms of the number of teaspoonfuls of sugar; to provide for standards of information provision in advertising of food and drinks; and for connected purposes. Due to parliamentary scheduling and procedures, this is likely to be as far as the Bill gets this time. We hope that what this Bill is trying to achieve may meet with more success in the next Parliament. See Sustain's work on sugary drinks
Children's Food Campaign | Friday 27 February 2015

News: New study highlights methods to safeguard UK food security

Farming practices which balance the needs of the land with those of people have a huge part to play in safeguarding food security, a major new study has found. It found that agroecology – food production that makes the best use of nature’s goods and services while not damaging precious resources – can help maintain agricultural productivity.
Sustain | Monday 22 June 2015