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The latest Environmental News affecting the Food and Drink Industry, from food miles and food security to sustainable food production, carbon footprints and biofuels to grants, technology and regulations
Food giants launch online sustainability site to meet changing consumer demands
Bidvest Foodservice and a ‘green alliance’ made up of food industry giants, Unilever, Premier Foods, Delifrance UK, Vegware, and Jacobs Douwe Egberts have today launched plate2planet, a ‘one-stop-shop’ digital platform that aims to address the growing demand in the food sector for useful and practical information about sustainability.Switching to a sustainable diet is key to ending world hunger
In trendy, hipster London or New York, it’s all about juicing, vegan diets and snacking on kale crisps. Thousands of miles away, in Nairobi or Bogota, the middle classes are more likely to reach for roasted goat or a juicy steak.Food security: crop failures set to intensify due to climate change
Major “shocks” to global food production will be three times more likely within 25 years because of an increase in extreme weather brought about by global warming, warns a new report.Sales of organic food and drinks rise four per cent
Sales of organic food and drink products have bounced back, rising by four per cent last year at a time of tumbling food prices and spending.UK and world can avoid dangerous climate change and still live well, new analysis shows
The world can enjoy higher standards of living and more travel, while drastically cutting emissions to avoid dangerous climate change – but only with sweeping changes to our infrastructure, the natural world and agriculture, a new analysis has found.Community Shop opens first ‘social supermarket’ in London
The UK’s first full-scale social supermarket starts its national rollout on Monday, selling surplus food and drink to people on the verge of food poverty for up to 70 per cent less than high street prices.Defra confirms avian flu at Yorkshire duck farm where 6,000 birds face slaughter
Government scientists are investigating whether an outbreak of avian flu on a duck farm in Yorkshire is connected to a highly contagious strain in chickens in the Netherlands, as officials stressed the threat to humans remains extremely low.From lab to lunch: overcoming public anxiety about factory-grown meat
For Modern Meadow, a food start-up making synthetic meat, the biggest challenge may be convincing consumers that great meat can come from a laboratory.New green innovation fund targets farmers
A new fund has launched for agricultural innovation that aims to put money in the hands of businesses with green fingers.Liz Truss named new Environment Secretary
Liz Truss is to be the new Environment Secretary, as part of David Cameron’s Cabinet reshuffle.Organic food better for your health than non-organic food, research finds
Organic food has more of the antioxidant compounds linked to better health than regular food, and lower levels of toxic metals and pesticides, according to the most comprehensive scientific analysis to date.Households throwing away a quarter of food ‘unopened’
As much as one-quarter of the food that is thrown away by households in the UK is still “untouched” in its wrapping, analysis of waste figures shows.EU agrees deal to cap production of food-based biofuels
A European political stalemate that has been blamed for stopping investment in the biofuels industry for almost two years appeared to have been lifted on Friday when European Ministers agreed to set a cap on the use of food-based biofuels in transport fuel.‘Big 10’ food and drink companies emit more greenhouse gases than Nordic nations
The ‘Big 10’ global food and drink companies together emit more greenhouse gases than the Nordic countries and would rank as the 25th most polluting country in the world if grouped together, the international charity and agency Oxfam claims in a new report on Tuesday.Neonicotionoids devastating bee colonies, Harvard study finds
The mysterious vanishing of honeybees from hives can be directly linked to insectcide use, according to new research from Harvard University.
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