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THE FRIDAY DIGEST: Net-zero review finds scope for improvement
Five years since it launched its roadmap to net-zero for the brewing and hospitality sector, Zero Carbon Forum (ZCF) has published a 5-year review of progress that neatly encapsulates the challenge businesses face in aligning action with impact

THE FRIDAY DIGEST: Reynolds battles to rebuild farmer relations
As is tradition for the beginning of January, the farming sector took centre stage this week as the annual Oxford Farming and Oxford Real Farming conferences took place.

THE FRIDAY DIGEST: Oat milk marketing stirs heated debate
‘Trust the processed’, says Oatly on its carton of oat milk drink. The new blurb is – we presume – intended to quell concerns about these products being de facto unhealthy because they are processed; or perhaps ultra-processed (depending on…

THE FRIDAY DIGEST: Was Glasgow up for the cup?
Following last week’s flurry of food-related reports, the news cycle slowed to a more manageable pace this week as holiday season fast approaches. That’s not to suggest there’s nothing (aside from yet another mince pie) for the Digest to get…

THE FRIDAY DIGEST: Can the appliance of alliance(s) produce a sound food strategy?
The start of December often marks a flash flood of fine reports relating to food. This week’s Digest therefore attempts to tie a number of threads together into a comprehensive 500 words or so. Here goes… Some 160 organisations provide the…

THE FRIDAY DIGEST: No green sheen in ‘make or break’ budget
The build-up seemed to last forever. Strategies were poured over by the media. The verbal sparring was fierce. And then the event itself was over in little more than the blink of an eye. But enough about the first Ashes…

THE FRIDAY DIGEST: Further delay for deforestation law
This week’s Digest was written early. Whether it was to avoid desperately trying to uncover anything positive from the business end of the COP30 climate talks in Brazil, or so we could tune in live as the negotiations reached their…

THE FRIDAY DIGEST: How might foodservice report healthy sales?
News that the UK Government plans to introduce a healthy food standard generated plenty of column inches when it broke over the summer. Announced in the 10 year health plan for England, the policy will require large food businesses to…

THE FRIDAY DIGEST: Beans, beans, good for your heart
We won’t spoil your morning porridge by completing the playground rhyme in its entirety, but suffice it to say that beans are having their moment in the sun. This week, bean enthusiasts from across the worlds of academia, civil society…

THE FRIDAY DIGEST: Do food cos have the appetite for plant proteins?
EAT-Lancet’s meticulously modelled 2025 report this month painted a picture of a better food system. “The report is, on the face of it, full of portents of doom,” Footprint reported on Monday, but “also underscores some of the positive things…
