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News: Health Committee Report: voluntary controls on food marketing doomed to fail

While Sustain warmly welcomes the measures that will have a positive effect on children's diets, the Health Select Committee's Inquiry into Obesity recommendations, published today, will do nothing to prevent the marketing of unhealthy foods to children. Over the three year period of delay recommended by the Committee, more than one hundred thousand children may become obese.
Children's Food Campaign | Thursday 27 May 2004

News: Summary of the DEFRA Action Plan to develop Organic Food and Farming in England

Sustain | Monday 29 July 2002

News: DEFRA Food and Farming strategy - Picks the cherries, avoids grasping nettles

The Government has failed to deliver a clear and integrated strategy for a sustained and sustainable farming future in its Strategy launched today (12 December 2002).
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Thursday 12 December 2002

News: Sustain/UK Food Group interim response to the UK DEFRA Consultation on the CAP Sugar Regime

Response to the UK DEFRA Consultation on the CAP Sugar Regime
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Thursday 8 January 2004

News: Online NOURISHING tool lets you check healthy food policies across the world

Sustain member the World Cancer Research Fund’s newly updated database is a valuable tool for policy makers, researchers and organisations to search for government policies on healthy eating from across the world.
Children's Food Campaign | Saturday 27 October 2018

News: Saving the environment is more important to farmers than subsidising food productivity - reveals new research

Sustain were one of 26 organisations supporting a new survey of farmers which revealed that a healthy environment is a key business asset for four out of five farmers. It also showed that a third aren’t taking environmental action and that lack of access to capital, a harsh market, and uncertainty over Brexit are big barriers. Farmers and nature experts are united in a call to the Government for an ambitious agriculture policy which must have the environment at its heart.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Monday 24 June 2019

News: City to Sea new report takes in-depth look at the single-use packaging problem in the UK food-to-go sector

Sustain member City to Sea have partnered with environmental consultants Eunomia on a first of its kind report to investigate the use and management of single-use packaging in the sector.
Sustain | Monday 16 November 2020

News: Learn about Mrs Smith’s Cottage and her legacy of food growing in small spaces

In preparation for their re-opening in May, Mrs Smith’s Cottage is hosting a live online workshop at 1pm, Saturday 24 April as part of Good to Grow 2021.
Good to Grow | Friday 23 April 2021

News: Sustain responds as new Government restrictions on junk food promotions introduced in Parliament

The Government has published draft legislation and its response to the consultation on the enforcement of new restrictions on price and location promotions of foods high in fat, salt and sugar.
Children's Food Campaign | Wednesday 21 July 2021

News: Every Mouthful Counts report: Six in ten councils omit food and farming from their climate plans

Sustain calls for action from UK government, as results show national targets in Scotland and Wales lead to better performance.
Food for the Planet | Thursday 10 November 2022

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