Sustainability & environment news and analysis – Page 5
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Comment & OpinionIs ditching Rainforest Alliance a bananas move for Innocent?
Companies’ own certification schemes don’t resonate as strongly with customers. And Innocent didn’t even announce the change
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Category ReportA matter of nutrition: trends in plant-based 2025
With the spotlight on UPFs and consumers demanding cleaner ingredients decks, plant-based is doubling down on health
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NewsInnocent drops Rainforest Alliance bananas from UK smoothies
Innocent Drinks has quietly removed Rainforest Alliance-certified bananas from its UK smoothie range, ending a partnership that lasted at least 20 years, The Grocer can reveal
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Comment & OpinionThe Inside Track: activist ideology or industry concern?
British agriculture and the food industry deserve better than this Trojan horse of faux concern concealing a radical anti-meat agenda
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News‘Urgent’ plan for UK fish and seafood to be created
The APPG on Fisheries has taken on the task of developing a National Fisheries Action Plan to create and deliver what it dubbed an ‘urgently needed roadmap for UK fishing and seafood’
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News‘Exceptional year’ marked by strong sales growth for Lancashire Farm Dairies
Sales rose by 7.1% to £84.6m for the Rochdale-based yoghurt maker, which means it has achieved 64% growth over the past three years
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2025: Flexible plastic pack of the year
‘These packs are a welcome step change in the industry, reducing pack size, saving plastic and saving shelf space for the consumer,’ said our judges
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2025: Innovative pack of the year
This is a development that’s ‘worth celebrating’, said our judges, using genuinely innovative materials and a ‘great design’ that ticks all the boxes
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2025: Label & pack design of the year – food
It looks like something you’d find in a deli, said our judges, with an authentic look and feel
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2025: Paper pack of the year
The new packaging is made using paper and zero plastic alongside a bold, block-colour design that our judges felt ‘taps into authentic artisan cues’
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2025: Eco-friendly pack of the year
The new look ‘neatly emphasises the bamboo [and] feels premium with its thick paper covering, clear typography and superb use of images’, said our judges
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NewsMowi stripped of royal warrant following animal abuse footage
The salmon supplier’s name was removed from the royal warrant holders’ list after 35 years of being the official supplier of salmon to the royal household
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NewsNew review of insect farming criticised for ‘inaccuracies’
‘Have the Environmental Benefits of Insect Farming Been Overstated? A Critical Review’, published on 29 October in Biological Reviews, asserted insect farming was less environmentally-friendly than many touted it to be
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Comment & OpinionOatly’s ‘100% British’ oats are home-grown but Dutch-made
Oatly’s press release announcing its ‘100% British oats’ left off one piece of crucial information: that although the oats were being sourced in the UK, they were still being processed into oat milk in the Netherlands
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Comment & OpinionPay now or pay more later – the real cost of ignoring RAM
Smart retailers are viewing RAM assessments as strategic intelligence gathering that reveals exactly where their packaging investments should go, says John Redmayne, MD of ERP
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NewsPladis targets 50% wheat from regenerative agriculture by 2027
Currently, around 50 farmers participate in its UK wheat sourcing scheme
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NewsRussell Davies appointed as Deposit Return Scheme supremo
Davies brings more than 25 years of leadership experience across senior logistics and supply roles
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NewsBrazil denounced for ‘greenwashing’ as meat sector set for centre stage at COP30
Meat and poultry giants such as JBS, Minerva and MBRF were ‘working overtime’ to portray themselves as champions of climate action while lobbying to avoid regulation, claimed Changing Markets Foundation
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Comment & OpinionChocolate-free Penguins point to a bigger issue in our food system
It’s clear that climate change, along with resource constraints and geopolitics, are converging to make food production less stable and more expensive, says Jim Mellon, executive chairman of Agronomics
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Comment & OpinionIt’s time the food industry treated climate risk as a financial issue
Media reports of political pushback against climate action are plentiful – but they don’t represent the whole story, says Andrew Coburn, CEO at Risilience