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 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

Paul Steedman, research fellow on the FEC's Road Pricing and Sustainable Food project, explores some of the effects that changes in the way we transport and shop for food have had on the environment and society and whether road pricing, if introduced on a national level, might influence our food distribution systems and shopping habits.
02 February 2007

Experts from the food industry, academia, the public sector and civil society met at the RSA to discuss the effects of road pricing on food and shopping. This report summarises their deliberations and conclusions.
December 2006

A new discussion paper from the Food Ethics Council asks how the advent of road pricing could affect how and where we shop, and what the knock-on effects for the food industry will be. We want to know your answers.
December 2006

The Winter issue of our magazine, themed 'the bottom line', is available to subscribers. The cover, contents and leading article can be viewed here for free. The issue includes articles about food poverty, hunger and ethical business.
December 2006