Sentences with phrase «s'cool food initiative»

The field study was commissioned by the FAO and financed through contributions from members of the SAVE FOOD initiative.

Walmart, the largest food retailer in the United States, and other supercenters that often target budget - conscious consumers, are continuing to increase their organic food offerings — both Walmart and Target announced new organic food initiatives in 2014.

The FAO - led Save Food initiative is partnering with international organizations, the private sector and civil society to enable food systems to reduce food loss and waste in both the developing and the industrialized world.

DuPont actively supports the SAVE FOOD initiative instituted by Messe Düsseldorf GmbH and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, which helps fight global food loss and waste.

Unidine's healthy fresh food initiatives include local, organic produce available for purchase in the New Milford Hospital cafeteria and a healing garden (above) on the hospital's loading dock.

Welcoming the investment, Irish minister of state Shane McEntee identified the British market as one that held «considerable growth potential» for the Irish dairy sector, within the context of industry targets under the government - led agri - food initiative Food Harvest 2020.

We are proud to join our industry partners in the Further with Food initiative to share solutions and best practices for reducing waste,» said Laura Abshire, Director of Sustainability for the National Restaurant Association.

The activities of the SAVE FOOD initiative play an important role to fight against food loss and food waste, mainly by raising awareness and by providing platforms to discuss on the issues of food loss and waste.

This is partly due to the amount of media attention that has been given to food waste, which is partly the merit of the SAVE FOOD initiative.

J.O. also recently announced a few new healthy food initiatives.

(You can read about a similar Orfalea - funded school food initiative here, and my interview with consultant and S'Cool Food partner Kate Adamick here.)

We discussed the final regulations, and how the new standards differ from current requirements, with moderator Cindy Brooks, Chair of the School Nutrition Association Public Policy & Legislation Committee and guest speakers Sam Kass (White House Assistant Chef, Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives), Dr. Janey Thornton, PhD, SNS (Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services at USDA), and Melissa Rothstein (Deputy Director, Child Nutrition Programs at USDA).

Called «Feeding our Future,» the five - week series about kids and food has featured such notable guests as Alice Waters, White House chef and Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives Sam Kass, Chef Jonathan Waxman of Barbuto (and Top Chef Masters!)

Yet Marion Burros, guest blogging at Obama Foodorama (the «the blog of record» for White House food initiatives) reports that the East Wing is referring all requests for comments over the pizza issue to the USDA.

Michelle Paterson, for instance, used her background in health care to spearhead fitness and healthy food initiatives in state schools, while Spitzer's wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, founded Children for Children, a kids» volunteering organization.

For its Freedom Food initiative, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will certify that the products bearing its logo have been humanely produced.

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The «eat well, do well», Hull school food initiative showed that a packed lunch was more likely to provide an excess of calories at lunchtime, with more calories from fat, as well as more saturated fat, sodium and sugar.

PCSD partners with EATS (Eat Awesome Things at School) to inspire new school food initiatives, including lunch taste tests, after - school cooking classes, and school gardens.

Help your kids stay healthy on campus and learn about current health epidemics, vaccination requirements, physical fitness programs and the latest food initiatives.

Over the past few years, the Institute has published national reports inspiring food leaders to action and the development of new healthy and sustainable food initiatives in parks across the country.

Topics covered include everything from local food festivals to potential civil unrest in the face of rising fuel prices to urban community gardening to supermarket's phoney «local» food initiatives - click below the fold for parts two, three and four.

On September 1, 2012, in a post on the White House Blog entitled, «Ale to the Chief,» Sam Kass (White House Assistant Chef and the Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives) wrote that the time had come to share the recipe with the world.

You can download the Good Practice Guide for School Food Initiatives (pdf) here.

Not exact matches

The Levi's vendor added food options and spiffed up its cafeteria as part of its Worker Well - Being initiative.

Ever the entrepreneur, I took initiative and challenged myself to go one week without buying any food with any packaging — no bags, boxes, rubber bands, stickers, cans, etc..

To date, O'Brien says that Earth Angel has diverted 3,000 tons of waste from landfills, donated 90 tons of material to local charities, donated 55,000 meals to shelters and food banks, avoided over a million single - use plastic water bottles, and prevented 6,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by using recycled paper, limiting transportation emissions, and implementing «Meatless Monday» initiatives.

The second initiative is a partnership with Operation Homefront, which helps military families with critical needs, like food and housing.

This weekend pays tribute to a specific era, 1985 - 89, and features a host of initiatives like cars with old - school car paint schemes, commemorative ticket and program designs, specially - designed apparel, retro food offerings at the track... unlike, say, baseball or football throw - back games where the only real change is the team's uniforms, Darlington and its partners goes all in.

If successful, the initiative would help Amazon become even more ingrained in the daily lives of consumers and grab a greater chunk of the giant food and beverage industry that still predominantly lives inside brick - and - mortar stores.

French foods group Danone is to sell a $ 1.9 billion stake in Japanese company Yakult in its latest initiative to boost shareholder returns.

«This new policy is further testament that consumers and companies are aligned in shifting the egg and pork industries away from confining animals in cages,» said Josh Balk, senior food policy director of the Humane Society of the United States, who has partnered with Dunkin' Donuts (DNKN) on the initiative.

He said the European business has invested in new IT and planning systems and boosted marketing spending to help new initiatives including a signature fuel brand and fresh food offerings.

For example, ConAgra's Banquet frozen meal line is changing several recipes to use real cheese and real butter and other big food companies such as Kraft Heinz, Campbell Soup, General Mills, Kellogg, Unilever and Hershey are among others with initiatives in various stages to reformulate some classics.

Lauren Bush, founder of FEED, the initiative to fight world hunger on behalf of the UN World Food Program, was only a student when she started her company, but through her determination and willingness to adapt she was able to build a multi-million dollar business.

The state of Washington's attorney general is seeking $ 14 million from the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), alleging the GMA created an «elaborate scheme» to secretly fund a multimillion dollar campaign to kill a food labeling initiative.

«McDonald's plan is a bold vision that will help preserve the effectiveness of these critical medications to fight infections and keep us healthy,» Jean Halloran, director of food policy initiatives at Consumers Union, said in a statement.

At least some of those concerns now seem to be playing out in a fight over how America's largest food industry group financed a campaign against a food labeling initiative.

The initiative resulted in a rise in sales and perception of the brand, value, food, and quality, he said.

And Humana has historically had a close relationship with Walmart; for example, they have a cobranded Medicare drug plan and an initiative that provides healthy - food credits.

In a turnaround plan Boire unveiled to Wall Street analysts barely two months ago, Barnes & Noble announced initiatives such as opening four concept stores in fiscal 2017 that will feature bars offering wine and beer, along with better food, in cafés twice the size of its usual food spots, among other efforts to rejuvenate its business.

This initiative was developed in response to the rapidly expanding brewery community within the food and beverage industry.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Some of the world's biggest retailers and food companies including Kellogg Co, Walmart Inc, and Nestle backed a new initiative on Wednesday to improve global supply chains amid rising consumer demand for slave - free goods and services.

LONDON, April 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Some of the world's biggest retailers and food companies including Kellogg Co, Walmart Inc, and Nestle backed a new initiative on Wednesday to improve global supply chains amid rising consumer demand for slave - free goods and services.

Despite the massive corporate spending, Rebecca Spector, west - coast director for the Center for Food Safety, which supports and tracks state - by - state labeling efforts, says momentum and strategy have helped maintain support for the Oregon initiative.

The Washington Attorney General is seeking at least $ 14 million from the food industry, alleging a trade association broke public disclosure laws by shielding the names of companies that contributed to a campaign against an initiative that would have required food makers to label products with GMOs.

OLYMPIA — The Washington Attorney General's Office is seeking at least $ 14 million from a food industry association, alleging it tried to secretly finance the campaign against a GMO labeling initiative in 2013, according to previously sealed court documents released Wednesday.

Under his leadership TNT rose to the forefront of Corporate Responsibility via a ground - breaking partnership with the UN World Food Program and ambitious CO2 reduction targets from its Planet Me initiative, holding multiple - year top - ranking positions in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index

Opponents say that about 70 percent of food sold in the state, by dollar volume, would not be covered by the initiative, an exemption list that includes restaurant meals, meat and dairy products sold in supermarkets, and alcohol.

The Office of the Chief Economist is responsible for recommending economic initiatives that address the state of the nation's rural areas and fiber and food systems.