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News: Time to nominate your 2024 heroes for a Jamie Oliver Good School Food Award!

Do you know a school or individual doing amazing things with school dinners? Jamie Oliver's School Food Awards 2024 will celebrate the people and places making sure kids are eating well, being inspired about food and powered up to learn and play. Nominate your school or school food hero for a Jamie Oliver School Food Award 2024!
Children's Food Campaign | Monday 12 February 2024

News: Healthy food policies to promote childhood health and reduce obesity in New Zealand are lacking

This is according to an assessment of policy priorities by a panel of more than 50 of the country’s public health professionals, medical practitioners and NGO leaders. The panel reviewed all the evidence on recent government actions and rated the degree of implementation compared to international benchmarks, in what is being described as the first systematic study on national food policies in the world. The report was part of work by the INFORMAS network to develop the first Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI).
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: National action is needed for councils to tackle food's role in the climate and nature emergency

New research from Sustain finds that two thirds of Council climate action plans miss out food, despite food and farming contributing between 20-30 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate Change and Nature | Wednesday 18 November 2020

News: Celebrity chef Loyd Grossman joins attack on government for hospital food failure

Loyd Grossman responds to the Good Food for Our Money campaign's 'A Decade of Hospital Food Failure' report by declaring 'it is a scandal that improving hospital catering remains far from the top of the NHS agenda'.
Good Food for Our Money Campaign | Thursday 14 January 2010

News: Sustain & Children's Food Campaign Response to Health & Social Care Select Committee

Parliament's Health and Social Care Committee has published a new inquiry report on Childhood Obesity, calling for better government leadership and a range of measures to curb junk food marketing. Sustain & Children's Food Campaign respond.
Children's Food Campaign | Wednesday 30 May 2018

Reports: The 21st century gingerbread house - how companies are marketing junk food to children online

This joint report from the Children's Food Campaign (CFC) and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) reveals the manipulative tactics junk food manufacturers use to hook children while they play online and entice them to eat foods loaded with fat, salt and sugar.
Children's Food Campaign | Friday 18 November 2011

Blog: Community-wide action in Tower Hamlets to tackle the climate and nature crisis through food

Tower Hamlets food partnership are leading on a pioneering project, in collaboration with several other organisations and groups in the borough, to explore ways to create a community-led just food and climate transition.
Food for the Planet | Monday 20 September 2021

News: UK's largest Edible Open Gardens event offers a glimpse of urban food-farms

More than 100 of the UK's community food-growing gardens will be throwing open their gates to the public during September 2012, in the largest open event of food-growing spaces ever seen in the UK.
Good to Grow | Wednesday 25 July 2012

News: Lyon’s Build Back Better plan invests €9.3million in better food and agriculture

The investment includes support for organic farming, creating an agricultural land board, centralised procurement for school food, and 100% organic and 50% local food in school canteens.
Sustainable Food Places | Tuesday 7 December 2021

News: Government! Protect our kids from junk food marketing, say parents in North West England

Research with parents by Food Active in the North West of England reveals high levels of concern about junk food marketing, and further evidence that the public wants the Government to take action as part of forthcoming 'Chapter Two' of the Childhood Obesity Plan
Children's Food Campaign | Tuesday 19 June 2018