Climate Change

  • Food inflation rates to continue to beat Consumer Price Index

    CHICKEN AND pork prices expected to drop, but food inflation rates are to continue to beat CPI rates as it eases slightly from 4.4% to 3.8% in 2014.                 Prestige Purchasing, procurement specialist… Read More

  • One million pounds to tackle obesity, food poverty and climate change in UK cities

    ONE MILLION pounds is to be invested in the UK’s first ‘Sustainable Food Cities’ programme to use good food to address some of today’s most pressing social, economic and environmental problems including obesity, food poverty and climate change. The programme… Read More

  • Climate change in, but sustainable development out

    GOVE HAS listened to the letter not the spirit of campaigners’ demands.   In response to the announcement of changes to the National Curriculum unveiled today, Cherry Duggan, Head of Schools and Youth at WWF-UK, said:   “Michael Gove has… Read More

  • Will ministers get the drift?

    SPRING SNOWSTORMS make the perfect backdrop for the government’s new chief scientist to get climate action back on the agenda.                           This isn’t how it’s supposed to be.… Read More

  • GHG reporting ‘unacceptably poor’

    JUST 37% of the world’s largest 800 companies are reporting complete data on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while even less (21%) have had their data independently verified.   New research from the Environmental Investment Organisation (EIO), a climate change and… Read More

  • Why food companies need to support climate change adaption

    September’s Foodservice Footprint will reveal the findings of a new government report showing that businesses are slow in adapting to climate change – especially the opportunities it provides. Here, Jessica Frank, climate change project manager at Twin, explains why adaptation… Read More

  • NESTLÉ® – HELPING SAFEGUARD THE FUTURE OF COFFEE FARMING

    THE CHALLENGES posed to the global coffee market – climate change, the economic crisis, rising production costs, volatile prices – are well documented.  Perhaps less well-documented but just as important is the role that coffee companies the world over are… Read More

  • Tea Time in Kenya

    Andrew Kobia Ethuru, a Cafédirect grower director at the Michimikuru tea factory in Kenya, talks to Footprint about the realities of climate change in that country and its impact on tea planters. Whilst we in the UK might not feel… Read More