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A Government consultation, ‘Health and Harmony: The Future for Food, Farming and the Environment in a Green Brexit’, launched this week, has been welcomed by the Food and Drink Federation as a first step in highlighting some of the challenges the food sector faces.
Scotch whisky, salmon and chocolate are big hitters in the growing overseas market place according to 2017's UK Government figures.
Representatives from leading food industry bodies and politicians were brought together yesterday to discuss competitiveness, the skills crisis, access to export markets and fostering innovation at the Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum's keynote seminar on policy priorities for the UK food and drink industry.
Welcomed across the industry when it was announced in November, the Food and Drink Sector Council has held its first meeting.
The British Government has launched a competition to spur the nation’s innovative new businesses.
More than two million tonnes of food are thrown out every year in the UK. A third of this waste is triggered because of how shoppers interpret existing date labels. Now a new labelling system hopes to change that.
The UK's Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, has put his weight behind a call to impose restrictions on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides.
Farmers will get a £40 million productivity boost from today (October 30) as the Environment Secretary Michael Gove announces the opening of a new grants scheme for investment in cutting edge technology and new equipment.
Defra has announced it is funding an advisory scheme aimed at helping farmers avoid bovine tuberculosis in the most challenged regions of the country.
Defra withhold information citing public interest and the impact a poorly timed release may have on Britain's Brexit negotiations.
23 January 2017 | By New Food
As UK Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to unveil a new, more interventionist, industrial strategy on Monday 23 January, that is designed to boost the post-Brexit UK economy, we hear from FDF Director General Ian Wright CBE...
21 January 2016 | By Victoria White
The new Great British Food Unit will back industry targets to further boost exports and support even more British companies export overseas potentially generating an additional 5,000 jobs in food and drink manufacturing...
4 November 2015 | By Victoria White
The country’s brightest food pioneers will drive the campaign to champion British produce and shift perceptions through leading trade missions, food festivals and sharing knowledge and ideas...
13 October 2015 | By Victoria White
UK food and drink exports have doubled in the last decade and have generated almost £1 billion in the past two years...
25 September 2015 | By Victoria White
In England, dairy farmers will share £15.5 million in recognition of the prolonged period of low prices in this particular farming sector...
