Food Ethics Council

The report of a workshop on air freighted food held with NGOs in April 2008. The report includes slides from the meeting.
May 2008

The debate over the environmental costs and development benefits has matured in the months since the issue first hit the headlines. Retailers will see civil society groups judge their performance on this issue against increasingly clear and challenging benchmarks. This report describes what we think those benchmarks will be, based on a workshop with environment and development groups who have shaped the debate on air freight, and who will continue to do so.
May 2008

A report of the Food Ethics Council Business Forum meeting on 24th January 2008, chaired by David Croft, with presentations from Tim Hess and Keith Weatherhead (Cranfield University.
February 2008

What can policy learn from the first wave of interdisciplinary research projects funded under the UK's £24 million-plus Rural Economy and Land Use programme?
November 2008

A report of the Food Ethics Council Business Forum meeting on 13th September 2007, chaired by Helen Browning OBE, with a presentation from Graham Brown and Hazel Seaman (Opinion Leader).
October 2007

A report of the Food Ethics Council Business Forum meeting on 27th June 2007, chaired by Julia Hailes MBE, with presentations from Prof Gareth Edwards-Jones (University of Wales) and Richard Perkins (WWF-UK).
June 2007

Can 'personalised nutrition' help make good health the norm? The report of a Food Ethics Council roundtable with Dame Deirdre Hutton (Chair, Food Standards Agency), hosted by the Institute for Public Policy Research.
May 2006

On 6th December 2005, the Food Ethics Council published Getting personal: shifting responsibilities for dietary health. This document summarises discussions at the symposium held to launch that report.
April 2006

Where is the UK government's 'personalised' approach taking public health policy. Will it improve health? Will it save the Treasury money? Will it empower people? And how does it overlap with 'personalisation' in the food industry and in the emerging science of nutrigenomics?
December 2005

A summary of the Food Ethics Council's series of three workshops on Power in the food system: understanding trends and improving accountability.
July 2005