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News: New research on local areas’ responses to household food insecurity in the UK during Covid-19

A suite of reports have been published exploring local responses to household food insecurity across the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Sustain | Friday 23 July 2021

News: Welsh Government announces £3m funding for food partnerships

Minister of Social Justice has announced £3 million of Welsh Government funding to support the development of cross-sector food partnerships in response to the cost of living crisis.
Sustainable Food Places | Tuesday 12 July 2022

Blog: The UK Government’s response to the National Food Strategy cannot ignore inequality

With nearly one in ten people in the UK experiencing food insecurity and the ravages of climate change impacting communities across the globe and further worsening food insecurity, we need a national food strategy for England that is ambitious enough to tackle these issues head on, one that chooses to include, acknowledge, and respond to all of the issues that cause food insecurity.
Food Poverty | Thursday 29 July 2021

News: The UK faces serious food insecurity, Sustain tells parliament

In October, Sustain submitted evidence to the EFRA Committee's inquiry on food security. In it, Sustain highlighted the mutiple challenges that the food system faces and what the UK Government can do to support farmers, communities, and households to be more food secure.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Thursday 10 November 2022

News: Food banks a short-term Band-Aid

A new paper from the Food Research Collaboration argues that using wasted food to feed hungry people distracts from underlying problems of surplus production and food insecurity.
Sustain | Friday 27 January 2017

News: Food industry reacts to new National Living Wage

Food industry magazine The Grocer has published the food industry's reaction to the National Living Wage announcement in the recent Budget.
Sustain | Friday 10 July 2015

News: How the food industry can help reach the SDGs

A new report from WWF argues that standards -- the frameworks on sourcing, production and labour that food companies voluntarily sign up to, and which are independently audited -- are a useful way of harnessing the industry's contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Sustain | Friday 17 February 2017

News: Government announces £2 million for holiday activity and food provision pilot programmes

Applications are open until 18 April for projects in England that will benefit disadvantaged families during the 2018 summer holidays.
Food Poverty | Tuesday 3 April 2018

Blog: When a network becomes a movement... Sustainable Food Cities

Sustainable Food Cities has come of age. Over 30% of food eaten in this country is within places in the network. Justifiably it now wants more recognition, and has written to food and farming Minister to offer its help in the coming turbulence of post Brexit food and farming policy. Ben Reynolds traces this transition of a network finding its voice.
Sustainable Food Places | Monday 19 June 2017

News: 30 out of 33 London councils doing more to improve food

The results of the sixth annual survey of food initiatives supported by London councils have been published by campaigning network London Food Link. The ‘Good Food For London’ report, supported by the Mayor of London and national food and farming organisations, measures progress and encourages local councils to take action on good food.
London Food Link | Tuesday 15 November 2016

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