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News: Time to close loopholes in ASA junk food advertising rules

The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld Children's Food Campaign complaints about McDonald's and Burger King ads near primary schools, but allowed similar ads to remain close to nurseries and children's centres, as well as on a bus stopping outside nine schools.
Children's Food Campaign | Wednesday 21 November 2018

Blog: Funding for small-scale food and farming enterprises: How LEAP can help

In this guest blog, the Real Farming Trust’s Robert Fraser shares four films exploring their innovative funding programme, and how it plugs a gap in finance for small agroecological food and farming enterprises.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Wednesday 15 September 2021

News: Hull residents given new Right to Grow Food in historic council motion

Hull City Council unanimously adopted a motion to empower local communities with a formalised Right To Grow food on public land. The initiative, which has been pursued by residents in Hull since 2020, is based on a national campaign by Incredible Edible which seeks to radically change the way public land is used.
Good to Grow | Tuesday 24 October 2023

Blog: It's the right thing to do: five years of local healthier food advertising policies

It’s been five years since Sustain supported the Mayor of London to successfully implement the groundbreaking healthier food advertising policy across the Transport for London network in 2019. So five years and twelve more successful local government policies later, Fran Bernhardt reflects on progress.
Good Food Local | Tuesday 20 February 2024

Reports: Food Labelling: Proposed pictorial representations for sustainability scoring

This paper explores how sustainability could be represented on food labelling, depicting and balancing a range of sustainability factors such as fair trade, water use and carbon footprint, to give an overall score. The paper proposes a flower motif, with sustainability 'petals' to rate progress on the range of key themes.
Labelling for sustainability | Sunday 1 July 2007

News: Sustain response to 'FSA - Action Plan on Food Promotions and Children's Diets'

We are pleased to submit this response to the Food Standard Agency's (FSA) Action Plan on Food Promotions and Children's Diets. The comments relating to the promotion of foods to children and the food environments within schools are presented on behalf of the coalition of 115 national organisations which currently support the Children's Food Bill.
Children's Food Campaign | Monday 21 June 2004

Page: Sustain trustees share their routes into sustainable food and farming

The short documentary hears from trustees Shefalee Loth, from Which?; Dr Kawther Hashem from Action on Salt, Sugar and Healt; Jyoti Fernandes, from Landworkers Alliance and Raksha Mistry from the Soil Association. They speak about challenges and opportunities in their roles and sectors, from access to land to perceptions of being a woman of colour, and touch on cross-cutting issues in food justice and public health.
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News: The European Commission has spoken out in favour of small food companies

And it has adopted a communication encouraging Member States to look for ways to improve protection of small food producers and retailers against the unfair practices of their trading partners, which include: refusing to put essential terms and conditions in writing; making changes to the cost of transactions that have already been agreed; leaving the weaker parties in a contract with a disproportionate amount of risk; and ending a commercial relationship without notice and without an objectively justifiable reason.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: UK’s first social impact tool for the food & drink industry unveiled

Sustainable Food Places member Forth Valley Food Futures has developed what is believed to be the UK’s first social impact auditing tool for the food and drink industry.
Sustainable Food Places | Thursday 9 May 2024

News: Consultation: impact of Covid-19 on food, farming & environment in Wales

The Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs (CCERA) Committee has launched a consultation seeking views on how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted agriculture, fisheries, food supply, animal welfare, climate change and the environment in Wales.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Monday 15 June 2020