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  • Foodservice Footprint cuc2 Bucks for beans under extended farm payment scheme Grocery sector news updates  news-email email-news

    Bucks for beans under extended farm payment scheme

    Farmers will be paid for reducing insecticides and growing legumes as part of government plans to encourage more environmentally friendly farming. Defra secretary, Thérèse Coffey, this week announced a raft of new plans for the UK Government’s environmental land management… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint Puzzled Food workers on the breadline while CEOs prosper Grocery sector news updates  news-email email-news

    Food workers on the breadline while CEOs prosper

    Supermarket CEOs are earning up to 224 times more than their average employee, who are increasingly battling food poverty, writes Jack Thompson.  Tortoise Media’s Responsibility 100 Index scores companies on environmental, social and ethical metrics and compares how their claims match up to… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint shutterstock_320746712-scaled <strong>Waitrose switches wine packaging to cut carbon </strong> Drinks Sector News Grocery sector news updates  news-email email-news

    Waitrose switches wine packaging to cut carbon 

    Waitrose has announced plans to move most of its small wine formats from glass bottles into cans – a move that the grocer says will reduce carbon emissions and save resources. “Aluminium cans weigh significantly less than glass and create… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint Wheat-disease <strong>Cost of fertiliser signals end of cheap food</strong> Grocery sector news updates  news-email email-news

    Cost of fertiliser signals end of cheap food

    Surging energy and fertiliser prices will have by far the greatest impact on food security in the coming decades, according to new research. High fertiliser prices linked to the war in Ukraine could put an additional 100 million people globally… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint Cows2 <strong>Businesses back payments for nature-friendly farming</strong> Grocery sector news updates  news-email email-news

    Businesses back payments for nature-friendly farming

    The government should raise the ambition of schemes that will pay farmers to adopt more nature friendly practices. That’s according to a coalition of more than 50 food businesses, banks, farmers and NGOs which has called for “bold and decisive… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint sheep-2 Farmers take tiny slice of food profits, study reveals Grocery sector news updates  news-email email-news

    Farmers take tiny slice of food profits, study reveals

    UK farmers can receive less than 1% of the profit from the food they sell with supermarkets, retailers and processors taking the vast majority.  NGO Sustain compared the distribution of money in retail supply chains and alternative routes to market,… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint PACK2 Wrap finds mixed progress on ‘best before’ advice Grocery sector news updates  news-email email-news

    Wrap finds mixed progress on ‘best before’ advice

    Businesses have been urged to do more to help curb the impact the UK’s food waste is having on climate change after a survey found mixed progress in implementing best practice guidance for labelling and storage. A retail survey published this week… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint plastic2 Plastic packaging targets unlikely to be met Grocery sector news updates  news-email email-news

    Plastic packaging targets unlikely to be met

    This time last year the Ellen MacArthur Foundation claimed that plastic use by big businesses was “likely to peak in 2021”. The latest update of its global plastic commitment shows this wasn’t the case, however. Use of virgin plastic is now as… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint Soy-field-Brazil Major food shifts needed to keep climate goals on track Grocery sector news updates  news-email email-news

    Major food shifts needed to keep climate goals on track

    Critical shifts in the way we produce and consume food are needed to achieve global food security and limit warming to 1.5°C. That’s according to a new report by the World Resources Institute (WRI) which warned that significantly more action… Read More

  • Foodservice Footprint bacon2 Plant-based sales slide when placed directly next to meat counterparts Grocery sector news updates  news-email email-news

    Plant-based sales slide when placed directly next to meat counterparts

    Moving plant-based alternatives into the meat aisle helps boost sales but only if they are all in a dedicated area.  Research by IGD and Asda showed that relocating the meat substitutes directly alongside their meat counterparts – for example plant-based sausages… Read More