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Blog: Funding for small-scale food and farming enterprises: How LEAP can help

In this guest blog, the Real Farming Trust’s Robert Fraser shares four films exploring their innovative funding programme, and how it plugs a gap in finance for small agroecological food and farming enterprises.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Wednesday 15 September 2021

Reports: Food Labelling: Proposed pictorial representations for sustainability scoring

This paper explores how sustainability could be represented on food labelling, depicting and balancing a range of sustainability factors such as fair trade, water use and carbon footprint, to give an overall score. The paper proposes a flower motif, with sustainability 'petals' to rate progress on the range of key themes.
Labelling for sustainability | Sunday 1 July 2007

News: UK’s first social impact tool for the food & drink industry unveiled

Sustainable Food Places member Forth Valley Food Futures has developed what is believed to be the UK’s first social impact auditing tool for the food and drink industry.
Sustainable Food Places | Thursday 9 May 2024

Page: Sustain trustees share their routes into sustainable food and farming

The short documentary hears from trustees Shefalee Loth, from Which?; Dr Kawther Hashem from Action on Salt, Sugar and Healt; Jyoti Fernandes, from Landworkers Alliance and Raksha Mistry from the Soil Association. They speak about challenges and opportunities in their roles and sectors, from access to land to perceptions of being a woman of colour, and touch on cross-cutting issues in food justice and public health.
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News: RECRUITMENT NOW CLOSED: Food Legacy programme recruits for coordinator role

Food Legacy is recruiting for a coordinator role, to run the programme seeking to promote healthy and sustainable food in the catering and events sectors, inspired by the London 2012 Food Vision.
Food Legacy | Wednesday 9 November 2011

News: The European Commission has spoken out in favour of small food companies

And it has adopted a communication encouraging Member States to look for ways to improve protection of small food producers and retailers against the unfair practices of their trading partners, which include: refusing to put essential terms and conditions in writing; making changes to the cost of transactions that have already been agreed; leaving the weaker parties in a contract with a disproportionate amount of risk; and ending a commercial relationship without notice and without an objectively justifiable reason.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

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: Consultation: impact of Covid-19 on food, farming & environment in Wales

The Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs (CCERA) Committee has launched a consultation seeking views on how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted agriculture, fisheries, food supply, animal welfare, climate change and the environment in Wales.  
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Monday 15 June 2020

News: Community food growing continues to gain support from London's councils

The Good Food for London league table published by London Food Link last week, showed councils are continuing to support food growing across the capital.
Capital Growth | Monday 16 October 2017

Reports: Kicking Out Junk Food: sports sponsorship and a better deal for children's health

The junk food industry is hijacking sport and children's health, according to Children's Food Campaign and Food Active.
Children's Food Campaign | Wednesday 24 November 2021


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