September 2025

Follow the Carrot on The Food Foundation’s ‘Pod Bites’

Click on the link below to tune in to the latest podcast episode of The Food Foundation’s ‘Pod Bites’ featuring Sustain’s Barbara Crowther, Children’s Food Campaign Manager. In the episode, Barbara discusses new evidence from our ‘Follow the Carrot’ report, showing that expanding free school meals could generate a £600 million boost for British farmers. […]

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Learn it, See it, Live it: how food education can transform young people’s health, learning and life

Best Food Forward‘s Food Education Mapping Project (FEMP) has been published. This report offers a comprehensive picture of how food education is taught and experienced in English secondary schools. Capturing the voices of teachers, school leaders and students, it demonstrates both the value of food education and the challenges that risk undermining it. Key findings 

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Follow the Carrot: can free school meal expansion boost the UK food and farming economy? 

Today we’re publishing Follow the Carrot, the final report for our research that asked a simple question: could expanding free school meals also strengthen the UK food and farming economy?  Our analysis suggests the answer is yes, if expansion is matched with the right conditions for success.  Commissioned by Sustain and with support from the

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