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Sustain is a public interest not-for-profit organization based in the UK that advocates food and farming practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, enrich society and culture, and promote equity. Sustain represents around 100 national public interest organizations working at all levels, from international to local. The organizations are wholly or partly interested in food or farming issues and they support the general aims and work of the alliance.

Sustain works and supports its members by facilitating the exchange of information and promoting their activities to the media and policy makers. It develops networks of members and allied organizations to devise and implement policies on particular issues of concern. Sustain runs several projects and campaigns to promote a more healthy, equitable and sustainable food system.

Children's Food Campaign
The Children’s Food Campaign aims to improve young people’s health and well-being through better food – and food teaching – in schools, protecting children from junk food marketing, and providing clear food labeling that children can understand.

The program is designed to reduce the current dramatic rise in child obesity in the United Kingdom. Childhood obesity increases the chances of high blood pressure and diabetes and can lead to adulthood obesity and increase the chances of heart disease and cancer later in life.

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Food and Climate Change
Sustain has taken a keen interest in the rapidly accumulating evidence about the effect of food and farming to climate change, as scientific evidence emerges that the food system is a very significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.

Eat Somerset
The Eat Somerset project works to increase trading between producer groups in and around Somerset and independent food retailers in the county, and creating new markets in Bristol and Bath.

Edible Roof Gardens
Sustain has recently begun to develop plans for an edible roof garden in London, as one aspect of its work to promote urban food growing. The alliance states that it hopes that roof gardens, as well as many other community food growing projects, will contribute to a more sustainable food system for London. It is also developing plans for a high-profile edible roof garden on London’s Southbank.

Food and Farming Policy
Sustain encourages integration of sustainable food and farming into local, regional and national government policies. It has regular meetings with government agencies in pursuit of sustainable food policies – especially with the Food Standards Agency (FSA), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and the Department of Health.