All Sourcing articles – Page 114
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NewsUK negotiating mandate for EU trade talks missing vital details, warns industry
Boris Johnson’s negotiating position is missing essential details on minimising border controls and potential disruptions from next year, industry figures have claimed…
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Analysis & FeaturesHow Kellogg’s is shaking up its global palm oil strategy
After pressure from two orangutan-loving schoolgirls, the supplier set itself a 2025 deadline for more ethical palm oil
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NewsG’s warns of slavery risk amid new immigration laws and GLAA funding cuts
The grower said anti-slavery watchdog the GLAA was struggling to carry out its remit due to a lack of funding
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NewsWaitrose claims first British asparagus crop of season
The supermarket started stocking the veg on 26 February
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NewsNespresso investigates coffee supply following child labour accusations
Channel 4’s Dispatches says it will expose coffee farms paying children less than £5 to work eight-hour days
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NewsCall for UK’s ’confusing’ food assurance schemes to be scrapped
Professor Chris Elliott said labels such as Red Tractor and RSPCA Assured were too confusing for customers
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NewsJohn Lewis & Waitrose invest £100k in Colombian coffee farmer programme
The funding will be used to kickstart a new training and education programme led by ASOPEP
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NewsSupermarkets urged to pressure chocolate manufacturers over unsustainable cocoa
Many retailers have sustainability and traceability commitments on their own-brand products, but are failing to pressure other brands to end their unsustainable practices, according to a Lumina Intelligence report.
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NewsWheat prices set to rise after wet weather delays crop drilling
Farmers in most areas of the UK had been unable to access their land since the autumn to plant this year’s crops, said the NFU
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NewsMorrisons beats Sainsbury’s to selling only free-range eggs
The retailer’s commitment was made possible after it doubled the number of free-range farmers that supply its egg packing partner
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NewsArla reports sales growth but UK liquid milk hits results
Arla’s UK boss was ’concerned’ about the future of liquid milk in the face of a profitability crisis across the sector
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NewsBrexit stockpiling leads to record UK food and drink exports
No-deal stockpiling boosted food and drink exports to a record high last year as two Brexit deadlines encouraged foreign buyers to stock up on British goods, official figures show.
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NewsMSC to tighten rules around shark finning
It will introduce a new fishery certification process with more ‘stringent requirements’ to eliminate the practice
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NewsThe Ethical Butcher launches ‘carbon negative’ DTC butchery service
The new website offers a variety of meat products reared using ‘regenerative’ methods of production
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NewsEustice replaces Villiers at Defra after cabinet reshuffle
The former farming minister’s promotion has been welvomed by food industry bodies
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NewsSpanish storms drive rocketing wholesale prices for lettuce
Storm Gloria buffeted coastal areas from Catalonia to Murcia over the weekend of 18-19 January
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NewsProcessors facing another shortage of UK potatoes following heavy rain
Following the wettest autumn since 2012, potatoes are hitting the market at lower grades with ‘higher than usual’ levels of wastage
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NewsMüller Milk & Ingredients launches review of Severnside dairy
The 45-day review, which starts on 17 February, will focus on the production of butter, potted cream and Müller’s Frijj flavoured milk brand at Severnside
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Analysis & FeaturesChinese forced labour: are UK retailers doing enough to prevent it?
Should retailers be doing more to ensure forced prison labour cannot be part of their Chinese supply chains?
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NewsClimate emergency nature loss to have devastating impact on global economy: WWF
Nature loss caused by the climate emergency could cost the global economy almost £8tn by 2050