Plastic free July - what does it really teach us?
Plastic Free July has wrapped up again this year and we unpack what going plastic free really means for food businesses and consumers. 72% of New Zealanders consider plastic waste their top environmental issue in 2019. Are you listening to them as a food business? Read on, for both consumers and businesses.
Regenerative agriculture and agroecology for breakfast
We are at the EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2019. Over 1000 delegates from around the world converge in Stockholm to act as change agents to transform the food system. From government ministers, to companies, chefs, NGOs, farmers, and city governments, there is a mix of health and sustainability tackling how food can fix our environmental and social issues. Day one began and ended with strong statements from one of the world’s biggest food companies talking to the heart of food systems change about regenerative agriculture and farming. At Spira we work on regenerative agriculture in New Zealand, so this was a key topic for us as we transform the food system.
Spira goes global! EAT Stockholm Food Forum 12/13 June 2019
Emily is heading to the EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2019, the world’s biggest gathering of experts and topics on food systems and healthy, sustainable food. Safe to say, she’ll be in her element.
We want to take you along for the journey and so we will be doing updates here on the sessions and snapshots of key learnings. You can follow us at the sessions live on Twitter, see Stories and updates on Instagram.
The Great Food Transformation: unpacking the EAT-Lancet Commission report
For three years leading scientists have worked on Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems, in the first in a series of articles, Emily King, founder of Spira, unpacks the report as it's released.