All Supply Chain articles – Page 83
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Comment and Opinion
Burnout: how is food and drink dealing with the pandemic mental health crisis?
The fishing and farming sectors have been among the first to react
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News
Suppliers urged to ‘be flexible’ as wholesalers face cash crisis
A growing number of wholesalers are failing to meet suppliers’ 90-day payment terms, as a result of a cashflow crisis brought about by the latest lockdown
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News
Scottish Wholesale Association launches project to make supply chain carbon-free
The project aims to achieve net zero emissions by 2045 through a series of schemes and initiatives
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News
Extended seafood support ‘fails to cover’ key sectors, claim fishing businesses
The £23m Seafood Disruption Support Scheme has had its eligibility criteria broadened
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Analysis and Features
The tech that can keep Brexit Britain connected
As red tape and delays threaten the efficiency of cross-border trade, how is technology keeping Britain moving?
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News
Onion and leek sales soar in latest Covid-19 lockdown
Volume sales increases were primarily attributed to the lockdown-related trend of scratch-cooking
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Guide To
The Grocer Guide To Hot Drinks & Cold Brew
The events of 2020, particularly the Covid-19 pandemic, has resulted in brands adapting to this new climate of uncertainty in the hot drinks and cold brew sector.
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News
Cranswick joins Amazon-led ‘net zero by 2040’ climate pledge
The pork giant said it aims to become the world’s most sustainable meat business
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Analysis and Features
How can the UK be more self-sufficient in food?
As Brexit and climate change threatens UK food imports, self-sufficiency is down. Could new attitudes and tech change food policy?
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Analysis and Features
What’s the outlook for key food commodities in 2021?
With Brexit disruption and the pandemic contributing to a volatile market, what’s the outlook for key food commodities this year?
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Analysis and Features
Will Covid recovery mark an overhaul of our food production?
Two landmark reports say time is running out for change – but 2021 could be a turning point
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News
All supply chain workers to be tested ‘every few days’ in next stage of Covid fight
There has been ‘relatively slow’ take-up of the millions of tests being offered by ministers to companies
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Comment and Opinion
How government can solve the meat industry’s Brexit border checks problem
The government must act quickly to rectify its mistakes, says John Longworth, chairman of the Independent Business Network
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Analysis and Features
How vertical farming is taking off
In the first in a two-part series on the future of farming we look at the upward trajectory of vertical farming
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News
Free range egg sector threatened by high feed costs and low prices
Feed prices have been elevated by high demand from China, which is rebuilding its pig herd
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News
Sainsbury’s to reduce greenhouse gas usage by 30% by 2030
The supermarket will achieve the reduction by improving overall energy efficiency across its stores and supply chain
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Comment and Opinion
The pandemic is great news for food fraudsters. So is Brexit
Food fraud cases are on the rise. Is the next horsemeat scandal just around the corner?
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News
Global food fraud rising as result of pandemic, report finds
Adulteration cases increased by 30% and counterfeit incidents by 47%
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News
Pig sector calls for government help amid supply chain crisis
The NPA’s letter to Defra secretary George Eustice speaks of higher costs, falling prices and a dwindling market
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Comment and Opinion
Why the organic sector shouldn't oppose gene editing
Adopting a position of outright opposition to the technology would risk the organic sector being ridiculed, says Alex Smith, founder of Alara Wholefoods and former chair of Genetic Food Alert