We have compiled this set of trusted resources to support teaching and training about relevant areas of sustainability in relation to education in food science and technology.
Resource risks and pressures. Risk reduction (mitigated/ unmitigated). Materiality assessments. Unintended consequences/impacts of sustainability goals.
- IFST Materiality Assessment
- Chilled Food Association (CFA) Prepared Food Sector Sustainability Aims
- SME Climate Hub - Tools and resources to meet sustainability goals
- Resource and nutritional resilience in global food safety - paper
- World Wildlife Fund (WWF) The Global Impact of Food Loss and Waste on Farms
- Food loss and waste accounting and reporting standard
- Champions 123: Interpretation of sustainable development goal
- Wrap Food Waste Data Capture Sheet
- World Wildlife Fund (WWF) webinar on forest land and agriculture development
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on climate change and land
- ISEAL Alliance: Performance metrics for sustainability issues
- GHG Protocol: Greenhouse gas emission calculation tool
- Cool Farm Alliance: Cool Farm Tool Data Input Guide - crops
- Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD): Climate change
- Wrap: The water roadmap
- Chilled Food Association (CFA): Refrigeration temperature awareness
- UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Forests, desertification and biodiversity
- UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- What do changing weather and climate shocks and stresses mean for the UK food system?
Healthy sustainable diet
- Sustainable Nutrition Initiative - Balanced global diets
- Seafish Guidance: Common Vision for Sustainable Seafood
- Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD): Healthy and sustainable diets
- British Nutrition Foundation (BNF): Healthy sustainable diets
Circular economy and sustainable manufacturing including Net Zero and food waste/plastic
- IFST Webinar: Net carbon zero for our food system - the offer, the policy and the reality
- IFST Scotland Branch Event: Net Zero Gin, Low carbon food production making more with less
- IFST Webinar: Managing Waste at the Consumer Interface
- IFST Food Waste Webinar Series: What about the packaging?
- FS&T journal article: Circular economy for sustainable packaging
- IFST New Food Waste Resources
- IFST Food Waste fact sheet
- IFST Food Preservation fact sheet
- IFST Date Labelling of Pre-Packaged Food fact sheet
- IFST Food and Drink Packaging fact sheet
- IFST News - UK food and drink industry calls on governments to back plan for future success
- Paper published in Elsevier: Testing the data platforms of food system
- edie Explains: The circular economy
- edie: Single-use plastics: The 2021 roadmap for sustainable business
- Chilled Food Association (CFA): Sustainable palm oil
- Wrap: The Courtauld Commitment 2030
- Experts in Sustainable Forest & Agricultural Advice (EFECA): The UK roundtable on sustainable soya
- Chilled Food Association (CFA): UK food waste reduction roadmap
- Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD): Reducing food waste
- FS&T journal article: A vision of the food system – 2045 CE
- Fareshare: Fighting hunger, tackling food waste
- Fareshare’s Tips for reducing food waste
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation: The global commitment - Circular economy for plastics
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation: Apeel - Make food last longer
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation: Planetarians
- CPI Oceanium: Bio-packaging from sustainably-farmed seaweed
Novel production systems and ingredients
- IFST Sensory Science Group (SSG) at the 13th Pangborn Sensory Science Symposium - ‘Sensing Future Packaging Workshop’
- FS&T article - Sustainability package deal
- IFST Sustainable Food System Framework
- IFST Sustainable R&D for SMEs
- Food and Drink Federation (FDF): Achieving Net Zero: A Handbook for The Food and Drink Sector
- Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD): Sustainable packaging systems
- Wrap: The UK plastics pact
- Chilled Food Association (CFA): Controlled Environment Agriculture and ’vertical farming’
Decent work and equitable trade
- Fairtrade: Traceability in Fairtrade supply chains
- Sedex: An ethical trade membership organisation
- Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI): Alliance that promotes respect for workers' rights
- Food Network for Ethical Trade: Ethical trade in global food supply chains.
- Stronger2gether: Tackling modern slavery in supply chains
- British Business Bank (BBB) Sustainable action plan for small businesses
Transparency, traceability and trust
Eco labelling and sustainability certification program(s) (International recognised and association voluntary standard)
[N.B. The following certification scheme show how some large organisations have designed and published their outputs. These are simply provided as examples and do not signify endorsement by IFST]
- B Lab Corp Certification
- The Carbon Trust Carbon neutral certification
- Science Based Targets: Lead the way to a low-carbon future
- LEAF Sustainable Farming Review – a self-assessment online management tool
- IFST Webinar: Green claims: Essential Regulatory Provisions and Best Practice in UK and Other Markets