Food 2030

This new strategy for food has been drawn up following the publication of the Cabinet Office Strategy Unit’s report Food Matters which called for better integration of food policy across Government and highlighted two challenges: climate change and obesity. This strategy is a response both to the big food challenges – sustainability, security and health – and to the call for more joined up food policy. It sets out the priorities for the UK Government on food.

Date: January 2010
Source: Cabinet Office

Setting the table: Advice to Government on priority elements of sustainable diets

Basic messages about healthy eating have been understood and promoted for many years. However, understanding how such advice fits with evidence of the environmental and other sustainability impacts of our diets is less clear. Developing a better understanding of a sustainable diet is essential for government to achieve its objective of 'a sustainable, secure and healthy food supply'.

Date: December 2009
Source: Sustainable Development Commission

Meeting the UK climate change challenge: The contribution of resource efficiency

This study explores the contribution material resource efficiency (hereafter referred to as resource efficiency) and material sufficiency can make to meeting the 80% target by 2050. As realistic strategies for mitigating the impact of climate change require an understanding of both the technologies by which resources are transformed into products and the lifestyle choices that shape household use of such products.

Date: November 2009
Source: WRAP

Green to the core? How supermarkets can help make greener shopping easier

This is the third in a series of reports in which we rate the UK's top nine supermarkets on how well they inform consumers about sustainability issues and help them make more sustainable choices. The previous two reports were published in 2006 and 2007.

Date: November 2009
Source: Consumer Focus

Prosperity without growth? The transition to a sustainable economy

Economic growth is supposed to deliver prosperity. Higher incomes should mean better choices, richer lives, an improved quality of life for us all. That at least is the conventional wisdom. But things haven’t always turned out that way.

Date: March 2009
Source: Sustainable Development Commission

Food matters: Towards a strategy for the 21st century

The aims of this report are: to review the main trends in food production and consumption in the UK; to analyse the implications of those trends for the economy, society and the environment; to assess the robustness of the current policy framework for food; and to determine what the objectives of future food strategy should be and the measures needed to achieve them.

Date: July 2008
Source: Cabinet Office

Promoting sustainable consumption: Good practices in OECD countries

Consumers are key to driving sustainable production and play a central role in sustainable development. This report highlights OECD government initiatives to promote sustainable consumption, with an emphasis on individual policy tools and instruments and their effective combination. Here, the sustainability of consumption is considered in economic, environmental and social terms.

Date: May 2008
Source: Organisation for economic co-operation and development

I will if you will - Towards sustainable consumption

The final report of the Sustainable Consumption Roundtable sets out how a significant shift towards more sustainable lifestyles is possible and positive. The report concludes that people are ready and willing to change but need strong leadership and support from central Government and business.

Date: May 2006
Source: Sustainable Consumption Roundtablee