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“Our food system is broken.” Five words that we have heard countless times at countless conferences in recent times. From campaigners. From consultants. From academics. From caterers. From manufacturers. From supermarkets. And now from Jonathan Davies.

Organic food and drink are far less available to shoppers than conventional groceries, according to researchers at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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

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.

‘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 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…

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…

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…

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…

The European Commission has said its deforestation regulation (EUDR) will still enter into force on December 30th, 2025 for in-scope companies – but there will be a six-month grace period in enforcement. Smaller operators now have until December 30th, 2026,…