Food Security

City Food Lecture

Supply chains need to be shorter and simpler

02-Mar-2017 By Rick Pendrous

The UK must shorten and reduce the complexity of its food supply chains if it hopes to ensure future food security and reduce the opportunities for fraud this presents, were key messages to emerge from this year’s City Food Lecture held in London last...

The Big Interview with fraud fighter Andy Morling

12-Jan-2017 By Noli Dinkovski

National Food Crime Unit boss Andy Morling says there’s more work to be done to protect the nation against food and drink fraud.

Global food system ‘is not sustainable’

06-May-2016 By Rick Pendrous

The world faces devastating climate change consequences, unless we radically alter our food system, a leading environmentalist has warned.

Warning: our global diet is not sustainable

04-May-2016 By Rick Pendrous

What with the UK's referendum on EU membership next month, the government's Childhood Obesity Strategy on the horizon and the National Living Wage now in place, the food and drink industry has a lot to think about. If all that wasn't enough,...

IFST conference

IFST conference focuses on sustainable intensification

15-Apr-2016 By Michael Stones

Sustainable intensification will be the focus of attention at the Institute of Food Science & Technology’s (IFST’s) Spring Conference 2016 at te National Motorcycle Museum, West Midlands on Wednesday, April 20.

Agritech funding cuts will damage the food supply chain

11-Jan-2016 By Rick Pendrous

The future of the UK’s agricultural technologies (agritech) strategy has been called into question after last year’s “savage cuts” in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ budget, which is likely to feed through into a reduction of its...

More secure food chains needed to cope with drought and floods

17-Aug-2015 By Lynda Searby

Food manufacturers need to make their supply chains more resilient to cope with the increased risk of weather-related production volatility, according to a new report produced by an independent food security research taskforce.

Manufacturers back calls to lift UK food output

25-Feb-2015 By Michael Stones

Food and drink manufacturers have backed calls from the National Farmers Union (NFU) to boost food production, after research showed the nation’s self-sufficiency is due to fall.

£30M food research centre for Belfast underway

11-Feb-2015 By Rod Addy

A £30M food research centre is being developed by Queen’s University, Belfast, as an extension to its existing Institute for Global Security, which is pioneering work on food security systems.

‘Join together’ to solve hunger, food firms told

08-Dec-2014 By Nicholas Robinson

Food Manufacturers have been urged to join retailers and others in a bid to cut food waste, as part of a plan to create a national network of food banks.

Elliott Review

Speed and cash crucial to food fraud strategy

08-Sep-2014 By Rod Addy

The Elliott Review may count for little in preventing a similar scandal to ‘horsegate’ unless its proposals are implemented swiftly and funded properly, according to experts.

Food Manufacturing Excellence Awards

FMEA Personality of the Year - the nominees

30-Jun-2014 By Rick Pendrous

The six candidates below have been shortlisted by the Food Manufacture Group editorial team for the Personality of the Year Award. Now it’s up to you. Who do you think has done most over the past year, either to raise the profile of the food and drink...