Jeanette Longfield MBE

Coordinator: Sustain - the alliance for better food and farming

Jeanette Longfield is Co-ordinator of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming, a network of around 100 national organisations formed from the National Food Alliance (which she joined in 1992) and the Sustainable Agriculture Food and Environment Alliance. She has also worked as a Policy Analyst at the NCVO, and for the Coronary Prevention Group. Her publications include A guide to preventing heart disease for Which?, and numerous articles in food, health and consumer magazines. She was a member of the Royal Society Inquiry into Infectious Diseases in Livestock commissioned by the Government following the Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak. As Sustain's Co-ordinator, Jeanette liaises with the Food Standards Agency, contributes to a number of food policy committees, and appears regularly in the media representing a public interest view on food policy issues.