Two of the keynote speakers will be Henry Dimbleby and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall who will explore how local and national food strategies can alter the landscape for sustainable and healthy diets.
Food waste is a significant problem as EU countries waste 89 million tonnes of food every year and this is predicted to increase to over 120 million by 2020.
The 7% reduction per person is equivalent to filling London’s Royal Albert Hall ten times and the total volume of food waste decreased by 480,000 within the three year period.
Together with a 20% cut in food waste, it comprises one of five action points on changing land use that need to be made policy, according to the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).
The State of the Nation Report estimated by 2024 as many as four in ten children will l
Food for Life aims to ensure that every child receives healthy and sustainable food whilst in school.
Dimbleby is leading the first National Food Strategy in 75 years to investigate the entire food chain from ‘farm to fork’.
Farmers and land managers in England will be rewarded with public money for ‘public goods’ including higher animal welfare standards, better air quality and improved water quality.
According to the English Breakfast Society, a typical full English breakfast consists of back bacon.
The nutritional quality of this type of lunchtime meal still remains low, with the percentage of packed lunches meeting food standards rising to just 1.6% in 2016 from just over 1% in 2006.