All articles by FPJ Staff – Page 5
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ArticleReader-voted awards open for entries
UK Fruit & Vegetable Awards is back with all-new categories and the chance to earn the industry's acclaim
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The Three Rs of Packaging
The tomato category provides a case study of how to successfully embrace the trend towards more sustainable packaging solutions, writes Gilad Sadan, managing director of Navi Co Global
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ArticleWaste, and what to do about it
Comment: Tom Elton, business manager at Newton, outlines the results of a survey of consumer attitudes to food waste and looks at how the industry can meet demand
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ArticleShoppers loosen up on plastic to reduce waste
Comment: Kantar's strategic insight director Ed Griffiths examines how the war on plastic is affecting sales of loose fresh produce
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ArticleMitigating Brexit: Control the controllable
Comment: Paul Harvey, partner at business consultants Newton, outlines what retailers and suppliers can do to limit the damage of Brexit uncertainty
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ArticleA Master's Life
In this diary-style article, Fruiterers Master Cheryl Roux describes some of the activities undertaken by the company and how they relate to its core objectives
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ArticleFresh products and prices are on the up
Comment: Kantar Worldpanel's strategic insight director Ed Griffiths analyses the economics of recent fresh produce price inflation
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ArticleSeasonal workers still need further concessions
NFU Horticulture & Potatoes Board chair Ali Capper on why current labour proposals are a start but don't go far enough
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ArticleStudy links fruit and veg with mental wellbeing
University of Leeds experts Neel Ocean and Peter Howley outline the results of a new study making the link between fresh produce consumption and mental health
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ArticleAutomate to accumulate
AHDB SmartHort conference hears that collaboration will be key to future technological transformation
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ArticleEmpowering women in farming in Ghana
Case study: How one farming student on the Marshal Papworth course has helped improve lives back home in Ghana
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ArticleSpring networking event for women's group
Food-based women's group, launched by Christine Tacon, outlines programme of events for 2019
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ArticleHenk Elfferich: An Englishman in Poeldijk
Obituary: Mart Valstar remembers Henk Elfferich, a friend of the English trade who passed away last month at the age of 85
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ArticleBeware the Christmas gift of sales growth
Comment: Kantar Worldpanel's Ed Griffiths on why supermarkets should avoid the focus on promotions at the start of the year
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ArticleWhy potatoes deserve recognition in veg marketing
Opinion: Andy Clarkson, managing director at Greenvale, expresses frustration at lack of recognition for potatoes' health qualities
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ArticleBrexit concerns grow at Borough
Opinion: Christine Elliott, chair of trustees of Borough Market, explains why it is essential the market’s voice is heard in the Brexit debate
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VideoVideo: Interview with Sarah Calcutt
Sarah Calcutt, operations director at English Apples & Pears, discusses the opportunities for homegrown topfruit
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ArticleFinding a responsible solution to food surplus
Advertorial: How a growing number of food companies are fighting food waste and hunger by redistributing their surplus food to frontline charities in their communities
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VideoVideo: Interview with Hayley Campbell-Gibbons
AHDB Horticulture chair Hayley Campbell-Gibbons talks all things British produce at Fruit Logistica in Berlin
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ArticleFloating a new approach
University of Nottingham Professors Saffa Riffat and Yijun Yuan are proposing breakthrough technologies to allow intensive food production in seas, coastal areas and rivers. Here, they present their ideas