Grocery sector news updates

  • Changing global diets is vital to reducing climate change

    HEALTHIER DIETS and reducing food waste are both needed to ensure food security and avoid dangerous climate change, say the research team behind a new study. Research from Cambridge and Aberdeen universities has estimated that if current food and lifestyle…

  • New health taskforce to tackle rising childhood obesity

    HEALTH LEADERS are calling for an emergency taskforce to be set up to tackle the rising epidemic of childhood obesity. The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and 11 partner organisations have warned that unless urgent action is taken now,…

  • Ground-breaking UK study points to future of water management worldwide

    As World Water Week 2014 convened in Stockholm, the Environment Agency and the Water Footprint Network launched the results of a pioneering new study of water use in a densely populated region of the UK; the Hertfordshire and North London…

  • 2020 Sustainability Ambition and the Nespresso Sustainable Development Fund

    ON THE occasion of the second annual meeting of the Nespresso Sustainability Advisory Board, Jean-Marc Duvoisin, CEO of Nestlé Nespresso, set out an ambitious strategy to accelerate the company’s sustainability focus and introduce several major new initiatives that will create…

  • Co-op gives British agriculture a £5m boost

    THE CO-OPERATIVE has announced that it will give a £5m boost to British farmers who supply its own-brand fresh meat, poultry and milk. The premiums will go to members of The Co-operative’s farming groups which were launched in order to…

  • Russian food ban – support for Scottish fishing businesses

    ELIZABETH TRUSS, the Environment Secretary has pledged her full support for Scotland’s world-class fishing industry in response to Russia’s unjustified food export ban. The UK government, alongside industry, the Scottish government and the European Commission (EC), is working to open…

  • Record sales of RSPO Certified Sustainable Palm Oil

    FOR THE FIRST time, demand for Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO) is rising faster than supply as sales reach more than 2.4 million metric tonnes. New data by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) revealed a record high in…

  • New details on CAP implementation announced

    ENVIRONMENT SECRETARY Elizabeth Truss has today announced further details of what the new CAP greening rules will mean for English farmers, whilst calling on the EU to provide urgent clarity on the outstanding issues and review the three crop rule.   The…

  • England recycling rate rises by just 0.1%

    NEW FIGURES released by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, revealed that England’s annual rate of household waste recycling only increased by 0.1% in 2013. The ‘Provisional Statistics on waste managed by local authorities in England including October…

  • Bacardi commits to sustainable sugarcane

    GLOBAL SPIRITS giant, Bacardi has signed up to a new pledge to ensure that all its sugarcane products are sustainably sourced by 2022. As a founding member of Bonsucro, a global non-profit organisation fostering the sustainability of the sugarcane sector,…