FOOD BUSINESSES must be careful not to see target-setting as a competition. One of the most difficult tasks facing sustainability managers is how to set targets. “The first time you set them you’re never quite sure,” admits Inder Poonaji, the head of environmental [...]
Watch the film about Footprint Forum: Mood Food. Speakers included Matt Dawson MBE courtesy of Sodexo, Oxford University’s Prof John Stein, Amanda Ursell courtesy of CH&Co, Vielife’s Jessica Colling, Felicity Yardy of Innocent, Lexington’s David Steel and Sue Gatenby of Pepsico. Join Footprint Forum
LARGE FIRMS are increasingly adopting and scaling up sustainability innovations and reaping substantial rewards for themselves and their customers. The new business approaches not only contribute to the green economy, but also show what can be achieved by decoupling business growth from increasing environmental damage, even [...]
VENDING MACHINES in America will soon carry information about the calories in the drinks on offer. The new Calories Count Vending Program will be launched in municipal buildings in the cities of Chicago and San Antonio next year before being made available to vending customers nationwide. Building upon previous industry initiatives that removed [...]
POTATO FARMERS will be able to predict future harvests using a new smartphone app. Farmers have traditionally relied on cumbersome and inaccurate manual measurements to predict crop yields. But the new app will take photographs of the ground coverage of the potato leaf canopy and analyse [...]
The March Footprint Forum in association with Partners In Purchasing tackled the role of food in staff performance and wellbeing. And while the idea of mood food is far from mainstream, more and more big businesses are looking at the concept, as David Burrows reports. JAMES LIND is perhaps best-known for his work on scurvy [...]
