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News: Chief Medical Officer report calls for fundamental change to unhealthy food environments for children

Professor Dame Sally Davies, who recently stepped down as Chief Medical Officer, has issued her final report Time to Solve Childhood Obesity, calling on Government to take further action in recognition of children's rights to nutritious food, and to grow up in a healthy environment. Children's Food Campaign responds.
Children's Food Campaign | Thursday 10 October 2019

News: Children and health organisations urge Prime Minister to restrict online junk food adverts

Sustain and the Children's Food Campaign have joined 97 UK health and children’s organisations, academic experts and individual campaigners in a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to encourage him to move ahead with landmark plans to remove junk food adverts from online platforms and social media.
Children's Food Campaign | Tuesday 6 April 2021

News: Govt has failed to address climate crisis and UK risks being unable to produce enough food, says prominent think tank

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has called on the Government to bring forward an industrial strategy for food and farming. A new report 'Reaping the Rewards' is clear that government intervention is needed to rebalance risk and power across the food supply chain and includes many recommendations that Sustain supports.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Monday 17 July 2023

News: Letter to the FT on new EU proposals for stronger food supply chain regulation to avoid unfair trading practices

Sustain, along with the Tenant Farmers Association, Traidcraft and the Moore Stephens Food Advisory group, published a letter in the FT on 18 April 2018. This touched on the proposed European Directive to curb Unfair Trading Practices (UTPs) in the EU food supply chain and why we need such measures in the UK so all farmers and suppliers are better protected against UTPs.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Wednesday 18 April 2018

News: Elizabeth Truss was promoted to become Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in July

Truss is the Member of Parliament for South West Norfolk, and was previously Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Education. Prior to entering Parliament, she was Deputy Director at the think-tank Reform.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: A Connecticut senator has introduced a bill to remove subsidies for marketing low nutrition food to children

The bill would amend the tax code to prohibit any deduction taken by companies for advertising or marketing through the use of characters, advergames, and in-school promotions of unhealthy foods to children under 14, and direct the revenue generated by eliminating such tax deductions to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, which serves elementary school students in low-income areas.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

News: Three top UK caterers pledge to serve sustainable fish, inspired by the London 2012 Food Vision

London 2012 Media Centre caterer BaxterStorey is one of three major caterers that serve over 40 million meals a year that has now pledged to serve sustainable fish.
Food Legacy | Wednesday 13 July 2011

News: Meanwood Valley Urban Farm celebrates 40 years of growing food for the city of Leeds

In 2020 Meanwood Valley Urban Farm, situated on the outskirts of Leeds, celebrated its 40 year anniversary. The market garden at the farm has been integral in producing fresh produce for families and providing a space for volunteers to weather the pandemic. We sat down with market gardeners, Ben and Luke, to reflect on the past year.
Veg Cities | Tuesday 30 March 2021

News: Children's Food Campaign's response to the Institute for Fiscal Studies sugary drinks tax analysis

The IFS, in its response to all elements of the Chancellor's March 2016 budget, have produced an analysis of different ways a sugary drinks tax could work, and the impact it could have. Read our response.
Sugary Drinks Duty | Thursday 17 March 2016

Blog: Beyond Rishi’s Meal Deals: How rethinking food and farming can really help kickstart the economic recovery.

Sustain’s deputy chief executive, Ben Reynolds, explores how Government could combine inventive investment and policies to boost the economy whilst also meeting strategic aims on health, climate and nature.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Tuesday 29 September 2020