Amy Fetzer

Amy Fetzer is Director of Insights and Special Projects at Footprint. She is responsible for curating the Footprint Festival programme and leads evidence-based thought leadership focused on the future of sustainable food, hospitality and foodservice. With more than 20 years’ experience as a sustainability consultant, she helps organisations turn complex sustainability challenges into practical action through strategy, behaviour change, events and training. Her work focuses on issues including food waste, sustainable diets, resource use and net zero.

  • Corbin & King encourages mums back to kitchen

    A NEW initiative by Corbin & King aims to tempt female chefs back into the kitchen after they’ve taken a career break to look after children.   Kicking off with a forum on the 10th September, female chefs with experience…

  • Is Britain lagging behind when it comes to sustainable diets?

    Is Britain lagging behind when it comes to sustainable diets?

    A growing number of countries are thinking green when it comes to their dietary guidelines, and Britain needs to follow their lead. As world leaders prepare for vitally important climate change negotiations in Paris at the end of the year, it’s…

  • Costa appoints new corporate responsibility programme manager

    Costa has appointed Victoria Moorhouse as Corporate Responsibility (CR) Programme Manager.   Kerry Parkin, Head of CSR and Communications at Costa, said: “Victoria will be responsible for the development, execution and delivery of Costa’s CR Strategy, coordinating programme activities to…

  • News in review: Food waste, shocks and shortages

    THE NEED for better food management has been stressed again this week as new research highlights the action needed to tackle food waste, amid warnings of future food shocks as a result of climate change. Focussing on food waste, a…

  • Foodservice heavyweights urge government to act on litter

    A NATIONAL litter strategy is needed to tackle the UKs £1bn litter problem, say businesses and campaign groups. Signatories to the Litter Manifesto include retailers McDonald’s and Wriggleys; associations such as the Packaging Federation, Beer and Pub Association and British…

  • Red grouse in short supply

    POOR WEATHER at the start of the year has led to a shortage of red grouse this season as chicks failed to survive the wet, cold spring conditions. According to the British Association of Shooting and Conservation, game dealers are…

  • Diageo turns whisky waste into heat

    WASTE FROM Diageo’s whisky production at its Scottish factory will be turned into energy which powers the distillation process.     The anaerobic digestion plant is expected to generate 2 million cubic metres of biogas a year. Designed by Clearflue,…

  • Apetito joins ethical trading initiative

    APETITO HAS joined the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) to support worker rights around the globe. The company, which provides frozen meals to hospitals, care homes and local authorities, has said it is committed to improving working conditions throughout their supply…

  • Defra invites industry to help devise new strategy

    DEFRA HAVE invited the UK food and farming industry to help develop a 25-year plan for the future of food and farming. The consultation kicked off this week when 80 representatives from across the UK food and farming industry met…

  • Restaurant introduces four-day working week

    TO IMPROVE working conditions and to attract and retain talent, restaurateurs Sat and Amanda Bains have decided to move their restaurant and rooms to a four-day working week. The decision hopes to address the problem of attracting and retaining talented,…