Sustainable Food News Daily News and Market Information for the Organic, Sustainable & Natural Food Industries. Sustainable food. What you can do – and ask others to do – to help make our food and farming system fit for the future Sustain’s working definition, developed in consultation with our membership of expert organisations, is that of "healthy and sustainable food" - in other words, good food - should be produced, processed, bought, sold and eaten in ways that: Provide social benefits, such as safe and nutritious products, and improve people’s experiences of good quality food, for instance by growing and cooking it, which helps to enrich our knowledge and skills, and our cultural diversity; Contribute to thriving local economies that create good jobs and secure livelihoods – both in the UK and, in the case of imported products, in producer countries; Enhance the health and variety of both plants and animals (and the welfare of farmed and wild creatures), protect natural resources such as water and soil, and help to tackle climate change.
In practice this means: Aiming to be waste-free Getting the balance right. Sustainability Topics. World Association for Sustainable Development. Advancing Sustainable Prosperity.