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Sustain finds London councils taking strategic approach to improving food choices in the capital

Good Food Local report finds more London councils are working with residents, businesses and food partnerships as they take on a joined-up approach to food policy, boosting Londoners’ access to healthy, affordable and sustainable food.

Tuesday 25 March 2025
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Government announces Food Strategy advisory board - Sustain responds

Monday 24 March 2025
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"This is not farming; it’s industrialisation”: MP’s powerful call for action on UK mega-farms

Thursday 13 March 2025
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Calls to expand healthy school food in response to escalating parent and teacher concerns

Wednesday 12 March 2025
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Don’t cut the nature-friendly farming budget, warn farmers and environmentalists

Tuesday 25 March 2025
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News Commercial Determinants

Billboard advertising a range of unhealthy products. Credit: Fran Bernhardt

St Helens Borough Council introduces a healthier food advertising policy

Friday 21 March 2025
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Government urged to improve fairness in the supply chain

Wednesday 19 March 2025
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News Bridging the Gap

Organic shopping basket at Limehouse Town Hall Food Co-op. Credit: Kiloran O'Leary

Demand for organic soars just as Defra cuts support for sustainable farming

Thursday 13 March 2025
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News Commercial Determinants

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Sustain joins new research hub to transform UK food for sustainability and health

Tuesday 4 March 2025
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Latest carbon budget requires food and farming to be at the heart of climate action

Wednesday 26 February 2025
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MPs debate how to improve supply chain fairness

Wednesday 26 February 2025
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Government unveils farming reforms, but questions remain on ambition and implementation

Tuesday 25 February 2025
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Leicester Mammas receiving Children's Food Award.

Children’s food movement unites at national awards to celebrate changemakers

Tuesday 25 February 2025
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KFC plus infant and toddler food brands come under fire at 2025 Children's Food Awards

Tuesday 25 February 2025
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Camberwell Triangle Community Garden. Credit: Ruth Arnott | Southwark council

Southwark Council allows ‘right to grow’ on unused council land in London first

Monday 17 February 2025
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Hundreds of environmental breaches recorded at industrial livestock farms across East Anglia

Tuesday 4 February 2025
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Could you be our next youth farming ambassador?

Tuesday 4 February 2025
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Sustain in the press

The BBC

Mega farm set to be refused over environment issues

Friday 21 March 2025 | Visit

MediaCat

Local councils are coming after junk food ads

Comment from Fran Bernhardt, commercial determinants coordinator at Sustain.

Thursday 20 March 2025 | Visit

The Telegraph

Farms face being blocked from expansion by net-zero campaigners

Saturday 1 March 2025 | Visit

The Times

The rise of fake sourdough — how to tell if your loaf is the real deal

Saturday 22 February 2025 | Visit

The Telegraph

14,000 pigs and 714,000 hens: The ‘mega farm’ causing uproar in a quiet, rural community

Thursday 6 February 2025 | Visit

The Guardian

East Anglian farms breach environment regulations 700 times in seven years

Wednesday 5 February 2025 | Visit

The Independent

Opposition heats up over plans for livestock ‘megafarm’ in Norfolk

Climate officer Lily O'Mara comments.

Friday 24 January 2025 | Visit

The Times

Councils given powers to ban takeaways near schools

Thursday 12 December 2024 | Visit

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