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New blog post: Plating Up Progress 2020: food industry progress, COVID-19 and a green recovery

This blog post is written by our former colleague, Will Nicholson, who is now leading the Food Foundation's work on metrics for sustainable and healthy diets. It outlines the latest findings on food industry sustainability from the Plating Up Progress project. Supermarkets have generally made more progress on environmental issues than restaurants and caterers, but almost all companies assessed lack clear targets on encouraging healthy diets. The post also discusses the uneven impacts of COVID-19.

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  • New blog post: Plating Up Progress 2020: food industry progress, COVID-19 and a green recovery This blog post by Will Nicholson outlines the latest findings on food industry sustainability from the Plating Up Progress project. Supermarkets have generally made more progress on environmental issues than restaurants and caterers, but almost all companies assessed lack clear targets on encouraging healthy diets. The post also discusses the uneven impacts of COVID-19.

  • In Fodder this week: FCRN member Jeroen Candel identifies four major challenges yet to be resolved by the EU’s Farm to Fork strategy; FCRN member Gesa Biermann finds that people often eat meat more frequently in restaurants than at home, based on a study in Germany; Oxfam calls for urgent action to avert severe hunger worsened by COVID-19; and the Food Systems Handbook brings together resources on COVID-19. 

  • Featured publication: Food systems and contributions to other environmental problems This Foodsource chapter, written in 2018, provides an overview of the types of environmental problem that are connected to food systems; how food systems cause these problems and what their impacts are; how these impacts have developed and what future trends look like; and how changes in consumption can help reduce environmental tradeoffs.

  • New blog post: Health impacts of red palm oil, the lesser-known sister of refined palm oil This blog post, written by Ryan Andrews, delves into the health properties of red palm oil, the unrefined version of palm oil. It examines whether red palm oil is able to play a role in improving health, particularly in remedying Vitamin A deficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia.