News: MPs and peers call for radical new food, land use and nature solutions
Cross party group calls for measures to promote local food, investment in local food infrastructure and new duties and powers for local authorities and communities to promote economic growth in a climate crisis.
Sustainable Food Places | Wednesday 8 March 2023
Blog: Bridging the Gap with public sector food
Unlocking access to climate and nature friendly food: insights from Bridging the Gap’s third webinar on public sector food procurement.
Bridging the Gap | Wednesday 29 May 2024
Blog: Celebrating neurodiversity in the food and farming sector
This Neurodiversity Celebration Week we offer a celebratory spotlight to individuals identifying as neurodivergent, who are working to improve our food system, and explore how workplaces can be neuro-inclusive.
Sustain | Tuesday 18 March 2025
News: Do you want to stimulate local authority action on good food in your region?
Applications are open to become Sustain's regional project partner on an exciting programme of activity engaging local authorities to push the good food agenda further.
Sustain | Wednesday 24 May 2023
News: Chief Medical Officer calls for levy on unhealthy food in report to Government
The annual report from Chief Medical Officer for England, Sir Chris Whitty, has backed the introduction of an industry levy on unhealthy food to address and food-related ill health including rising obesity rates among children.
Children's Food Campaign | Thursday 12 December 2024
Page: Better food enterprise
Better food enterprise and shorter supply chains are cornerstones of a sustainable, resilient, and fair food system. This structure of our food supply can bring together fair prices to farmers, better wages for workers, and access to healthy food for citizens.
Sustainable Farming Campaign
Blog: Which countries are already serving up school food for all?
Did you know that several countries around the world already dish up school food for all their children, including some in the UK? Well, you do now and this blog tells you all about them, how it works, and why we should Say Yes to School Food For All too!
School Food For All | Thursday 9 March 2023
Blog: Connecting communities and enterprise through food
Affordable food projects based on low-cost trading models such as pantries, community cafes, food coops and other community food projects allow service users to get more for less, often alongside wrap around support and a space to socialise. They go beyond the food bank to re-invest income in the community and the financial security of the project. Sustain has started a new project funded by the Barrow Cadbury Trust to explore what good practice looks like and demonstrate how social investment in this sector can lead to social return.
Good Food Enterprise | Monday 16 October 2023
News: Food partnerships well equipped to coordinate government funding
Areas of Wales with a pre-existing Sustainable Food Places (SFP) food partnership, when compared to areas without, have been able to better co-ordinate the £2.5 million Welsh government food poverty fund.
Sustainable Food Places | Friday 8 September 2023
Blog: The leaky food grid is failing us, farmers and the environment
How can we turn wealth-sucking food supply chains into health-giving food supply chains that are good for people, farmers, and the planet? asks Sustain’s Head of Sustainable Farming Vicki Hird.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Friday 18 August 2023
Sustainable Farming Campaign: Sustain The alliance for better food and farming advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, enrich society and culture and promote equity.
