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News: Food campaigners slam weak plans for regulation of online marketing

The Children's Food Campaign warns that the Advertising Standards Authority's plans to cover non-paid-for marketing on company and social networking sites are too weak to protect children from junk food marketers.
Children's Food Campaign | Wednesday 1 September 2010

News: WHO urges governments to promote healthy food in public facilities

Around the world, 8 million annual deaths are caused by unhealthy diets. Public settings, such as schools, hospitals and canteens of public institutions, can play a key role in ensuring people are provided with healthy food.
Veg Cities | Thursday 28 January 2021

News: Young Food Writer of the Year

17-year-old Georgia Kirby fought off stiff competition to win this year’s Guild of Food Writer’s competition for aspiring food scribes
Sustain | Thursday 7 July 2016

News: Climate change undermines the right to food

Friends of the Earth have warned that unless international governments take action on an ambitious climate change deal, vital resources of food and water will face increasingly severe challenges. In a briefing ahead of the United Nations climate talks in Paris later this year, Friends of the Earth outline how agriculture exacerbates the problems posed by climate change.This, they warn, threatens the right to food enshrined in UN agreements and guidelines.
Sustain | Friday 8 May 2015

News: Merton joins Islington as London leaders on good food

Merton and Islington are jointly named as London's top 'Good Food Boroughs' in the Good Food for London 2013 league table, with Hillingdon and Lewisham also praised for having made the most progress.
London Food Link | Thursday 10 October 2013

News: Growing more food in lockdown in Cardiff

Working in collaboration with food emergency response networks, Food Cardiff and Edible Cardiff are encouraging residents to grow their own vegetables. A team of 70 volunteers across 16 projects distributed around 14,000 plants, seeds and growing kits to over 3,000 households and more than 100 people joined online growing classes.
Veg Cities | Tuesday 26 May 2020

Reports: Too Much and Too Little? Debates on surplus food redistribution

Surplus food, such as food approaching its sell-by date or agricultural produce taken off the market to stabilise prices, is redistributed to poor people through homelessness projects, charities, local authorities and schools. But is this a good solution or could it perpetuate the problems of waste and poverty? Aiming to stimulate the debate, this report looks at the variety of schemes in Britain the US and Europe, and examines the policy options.
Food Access Network | Saturday 1 January 2000

Blog: European trials seek to rebalance food costs at either end of the supply chain

Two European trials are seeking to tackle the challenge that Sustain's Bridging the Gap programme seeks to address - what we can do to make sustainable food affordable to all. What can we learn from the different approaches? asks Hannah Gibbs 
Bridging the Gap | Thursday 31 August 2023

Blog: Recipe for Change guest blog: Food Active, on tackling the postcode lottery for good health

Each week across March we’ll be hearing from one of our Recipe for Change supporters about why the campaign is important to them and the people they work with. This week Beth Bradshaw, from Food Active, talks about the role of food and drink levies in reducing health inequalities, so that all children can access healthy food wherever they are.
Children's Food Campaign | Wednesday 6 March 2024

Page: Anti-racism in community food growing: Signposting

We've gathered together information on anti-racism and community food growing to highlight  issues, spotlight good practice and inspire action.
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