This report by the Food Foundation highlights the performance of major UK retailers, businesses and food manufacturers and what steps they are taking to shift to healthier and more sustainable diets. They claim that while some businesses are making progress, there is still a huge amount of work to be done.
Publisher’s Summary
This year's State of the Nation’s Food Industry report highlights the performance of major UK retailers, Out of Home businesses, and food manufacturers and looks at what steps they are taking to help us shift towards more healthy and sustainable diets.
These sectors play a vital role in shaping our food environments, impacting on our eating habits and the climate.
The report focuses on 11 metrics and benchmarks 36 companies against a range of criteria to assess who is leading the way and what more needs to be done to help fix our unsustainable, unhealthy and unfair food system.
This year’s analysis shows that while some businesses are making progress there is still a huge amount of work to be done. Going further, faster, urgently requires government regulation to shift the market as a whole. Concerningly, since last year's analysis, progress in moving to disclose data and set sales-based targets has slowed almost to a standstill for the Out of Home sector (OOH). In contrast, target setting for net zero and Scope 3 emissions is now something virtually all major food businesses do. It cannot be a coincidence that the environment is an area where companies are increasingly obligated to report on their impact, highlighting the need for a similar approach to be taken for health.
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Read more here. See also the TABLE explainer, How are food systems, diets, and health connected?
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