The Food and Drink Federation publishes Ambition 2025 Progress and Mid-Term Review reports
Food and drink companies beat CO2 reduction targets five years early, leading to new sustainability commitments in far reaching report.
The global food system is set to face unprecedented pressures over the coming decades. As part of this, a transition towards a more ‘sustainable healthy diet’ to improve the environmental impact of the food system is of growing interest to businesses, policy makers, NGOs and the public.
The definition of what constitutes a sustainable healthy diet is at a relatively early stage of development, with many organisations outlining the dietary shifts required to support better health and environmental outcomes.
All sectors of the food industry have a role to play. FDF supports the aim of sustainable healthy diets set out by the WHO and FAO and are working with our members to consider the role of food and drink manufacturers to help deliver change.
This work supports our long-standing goals to improve diet and health outcomes and deliver a more sustainable food system. This forms part of FDF’s Ambition 2025 vision for “A thriving and sustainable food and drink industry that acts responsibly for the benefit of society and the environment”.
Updates & milestones
FDF Diet and Health Award
UpdateHas your company made a significant contribution to improve the health of its customers?
Enter in the FDF Awards - Diet and Health category before 28 February 2021, for your chance to win. It’s completely free to enter!
Sustainable healthy diets panel discussion at the FDF convention
UpdateOn 1 December, FDF’s Kate Halliwell chaired a panel discussion on the topic of sustainable healthy diets. Panelists discussed the role of food and drink manufacturers to help deliver change, and perspectives on how this could be taken forward in the upcoming National Food Strategy.
We were delighted to be joined by Will Nicholson (Project lead, The Food Foundation), Dr Nikos Mavroudis (Associate Professor in Food Quality and Regulation in the Dept. of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading - on behalf of EIT Food), Joe James (Senior Policy Adviser - National Food Strategy, Defra), and Jenny Arthur (Head of Nutrition and Membership, Leatherhead Food Research).
You can also listen to recordings of the sessions via the official FDF Podcast channel.
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Welsh government publishes recovery strategy
In conjunction with Food and Drink Wales Industry Board, the Welsh Government have published priority actions to support the food and drink industry
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Report: FDF's Ambition: Progress report 2020
24 February 2021
The FDF and our members remain committed to the sustainability agenda and delivering environmental improvements across all areas of our Ambition.
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