WWF

  • New guide to commodity investments

    WWF HAS unveiled a groundbreaking new guide to responsible investing in 10 major commodities sectors.   The 2050 Criteria: Guide to Responsible Investment in Agricultural, Forest, and Seafood Commodities comes amid accelerating global interest, and controversy, around the financing of food… Read More

  • Potato Processor one step closer to sustainable palm oil

    Aviko claims to have achieved nearly one-third of its goal to use only 100% certified sustainable palm oil by 2015 in the second year of its CSR drive.   In February 2011, Aviko became the first chilled and frozen potato… Read More

  • Games caterer chucking food away

    CATERING FIRM Aramark has come under fire for throwing away food prepared for Olympics teams.   Employees working for catering firm Aramark have told BBC London they were being ordered to throw away food meant for Olympic and Paralympic teams immediately after… Read More

  • Hard choice to swallow

    POLITICIANS FEAR the idea. Environmentalists love it. Consumers don’t understand it. And businesses are beginning to trial it. David Burrows investigates the controversial concept of sustainable diets.   Obesity and diet-related illness are on the increase. Fewer young people are… Read More

  • Games greenest but could they be greener?

    THE LONDON 2012 Games will undoubtedly be the greenest yet, but there have been some notable failures.                     For example, the use of carbon footprint as a strategic tool was good;… Read More

  • Greener pork

    FIRST IT was palm oil. Now environmental NGOs have set their sights on a new crop: soya. But pork producers are trying to get one step ahead of the game.   In the last 15 years, the production of soya… Read More

  • Government to tackle sustainable diets

    THE FOODSERVICE sector has a “major role” to play in influencing consumer choice and shifting people to more sustainable, healthier diets.   New government project also commits to debate on GM   That’s according to a new government study into… Read More

  • Meat and veg for rich, lab steaks and veg pills for the rest

    NEW REPORT shows how food choices will change if industry and government don’t get to grips with climate change.   UK consumers could be left with steaks grown in laboratories and pills instead of vegetables if more isn’t done to… Read More

  • Demand for more disruptive innovation

    BUSINESSES HAVE to start producing more ‘disruptive innovation’ in order to meet the sustainability challenges and goals of the future.                     The combination of rising energy and commodity prices, concerns over… Read More

  • Fish reform creates buzz

    IN THE NEXT few months there will be a lot of noise about fish. The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is being reformed and businesses, environmental groups and celebrity chefs will be ramping up their efforts to lobby for a “robust” reform… Read More