OmniAction

OmniFramework - categories and indicators discussion
2022-11-30 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Zoom
To join us please register here. Everyone registered via the Evenbrite link will receive the Zoom invitation for joining us two hours before the event begins.
Join Anya Doherty, OmniAction co-founder + CEO of Foodsteps as we discuss OmniAction’s first framework for sustainability in agrifood.
We welcome feedback from our brilliant community as we run through OmniAction’s first framework, how to apply it, and what the next steps will be.
Join Anya Doherty, OmniAction co-founder + CEO of Foodsteps as we discuss OmniAction’s first framework for sustainability in agrifood, along with other key members of the OmniAction community.
You’ll find the Framework, categories and indicators at the bottom of this page.
For more background to the Framework do take a look at our Charter of Total Food Impacts.
And for all our events and updates, do please register here.
All welcome to join this open event, we do look forward to welcoming you.

VIP screening University Women's Club + Zoom: The Chocolate War
2022-10-12 18:30 - 20:30
Meet the director and subject of this documentary, before settling in to watch the film. Register here for in-person or Zoom access.

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The Chocolate War, directed by Miki Mistrati, has been nominated for Cinema for Peace, CPH DOX and Warsaw International Film Festival awards.Miki follows human rights lawyer Terrence Collingsworth – who he views as a real life Jason Bourne – via Ivory Coast plantations and the Supreme Court in Washington DC. Terry is working to convict Nestlé and Cargill of systematically exploiting children in Ivory Coast cocoa production.It’s a lonely fight against the multi-billion-dollar chocolate industry and their army of lawyers. Beautifully filmed and edited, Screen Daily described the movie as “an illuminating call to arms.”

Take a look at the trailer
An interview with Miki Mistrati
Variety magazine says…

​Almost every chocolate bar you find on supermarket shelves was produced by child slaves in West Africa – but it doesn’t have to be this way.If you’re joining us from home, be sure to register here. Just ahead of the screening we will send you the Zoom link to join us.If you are joining us in person, again, please register here first to be sure of a ticket.Agenda (UK time)6pmIn person guests might like to make time for a drink at the club before our event starts.Popcorn and drinks will be available to purchase as well.6.30-7.30pmPanel discussion and Q&A with:

Director Miki Mistrati
Human rights lawyer Terry Collingsworth
Campaigner Ayn Riggs who compiles the Slave Free Chocolate list
Mikke Friis-Holm, award-winning responsible chocolate producer
Professor Tim Lang, who will explain why governments must act
Moderator Lise Colyer, University Women’s Club member and Executive Director of OmniAction. OmniAction is creating a labelling system that informs us as consumers fully about how the food we choose was produced.

7.30-8.30pmScreening: The Chocolate War8.30pm onwardsIn-person guests might like to stay on and dine at the University Women’s Club. If so please telephone + 44 (0)20 7499 2268 in advance to make a reservation. Menus and further details available here.

Unlocking true sustainability through food safety
2022-09-07 10:00 - 11:00
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Food safety data collection is an opportunity to confirm wider sustainability / eco impact, some nutritional impact, land and labour rights

About this event

Food safety experts are advocating for wider data collection that would lead to more sustainability in our food chains.
Think about it. Strong food safety regulation and risk assessment practice provide the perfect opportunity to collect further data at method of production stages.
We’ll hear from:

Julie Pierce, Director of Openness, Data and Digital; Wales; Science, Evidence & Research at the UK’s Food Standards Agency
Tarryn Gorre, CEO and Founder of Kafoodle
Rick Sanderson, Founder at STAR Index
Rosemary Green, Associate Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Graham McAuliffe, Principal Investigator: Life Cycle Assessment, Rothamsted Research
Bill McBride, Foodlink Asia Pacific
Sarah Blanchard, Associate Head of ESG, Prof. Consulting Group

OmniAction’s aspirations, approach and next steps in the Charter of Total Food Impacts.
For all OmniAction’s updates and invitations, do register here.
For this event, please do register via Eventbrite here.

Risky business: ESG needs an agreed metric for agriculture and food
2022-07-13 16:00 - 17:00
There is no agreed method for measuring Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) credentials in agriculture and food. How can we address this?

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OmniAction gathers experts from within its community to discuss the terrible risk that business and finace currently faces – and to explore how OmniAction might support efforts to address this.
According to FAIRR:

50% of the largest protein producer companies rank as High Risk, signalling chronic underreporting and poor management of major risk themes
70% of total sector emissions – typically within Scope 3 – remain largely untargeted for reductions. Only 18% of companies set a Scope 3 target.
60% of companies are yet to set targets for Scope 1 and 2.
82% of companies that produce meat and dairy do not disclose how they address water scarcity risks in feed farming.
No beef producer in Brazil can trace the entire life cycle of its sourced cattle, with current monitoring systems missing an estimated 85-90% of deforestation.

Join our panelists:

Catherine Chong, ESG and sustainability advisor
Sarah Blanchard, head of ESG at Prof. Consulting Group and a consultant for International Finance Corporation
Helena Wright, Policy Director at FAIRR

+ more
We’ll be seeking to update our Charter of Global Food Impacts with the insights gathered.

OmniAction Nutrition topic, Advisory Group meeting
2022-05-11 16:00 - 17:00
Progressing the indicators and weightings for the OmniFramework Nutrition topic

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For those interested in the development of OmniAction’s Nutrition indicators, and how they will be weighted.
It will be of interest to those working in Sustainable Diets as well as Nutrition, along with those interested in multi-criteria measures in food systems. OmniAction’s framework encompasses the environmental, social and nutritional impacts of agriculture and food.
You’ll find the proposed agenda at the Eventbrite page where you register. To contribute to the agenda ahead of time please email lise@omniaction.org.
Everyone registered via this link will receive the Zoom link for the meeting just ahead of time – please do keep an eye out in case it lands in your Spam folder.
Do feel free to forward this invitation to peers for whom it may be of interest – OmniAction’s momentum and credibility is very much due to its inclusivity, allowing ready access to the best science and expertise.
In advance please do take a look at the OmniAction Charter. The Nutrition topic which we shall discuss is at 6.4 on page 25: https://omniaction.org/resources/the-omniaction-charter-of-global-food-impacts/

OmniAction's Environment topic for Life Cycle Assessment practitioners
2022-03-29 15:00 - 16:00
We will be holding our first Advisory Group meeting via Zoom on Tuesday March 29th at 3pm UK time. Led by our co-founder Anya Doherty, founder and CEO of Foodsteps, it will be of interest to environmental impact Life Cycle Assessment practitioners, in particular. It could also serve as a useful introduction to our research and science-led community members who are interested in the intersection of Environment and Nutrition.
All those registered via our Join Us page https://omniaction.org/join-us/ will receive the Zoom link.
The draft agenda
1/ Introduction to the OmniAction topics and indicators.
2/ Discussion of the draft sections of OmniAction’s upcoming Charter addressing the environment, attached.
3/ Exploration of whether this could be improved, ie, in particular the table: Environmental impact categories, and column: Likeliness of inclusion for first assessment guidance.
4/ First steps toward improving the reference methodology for those indicators where is it graded as Low.

OmniAction introduction via Zoom to stakeholders
2022-01-27 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Register here to meet the launch team behind OmniAction and learn more about how you can participate.
OmniAction is a new not-for-profit which will produce a unified global framework measuring the health and sustainability impacts of the food system. This science-based, verified and independent framework will be made available as a public good to all actors across global agrifood.
It’s a unified repository for data collection and analysis, monitoring all relevant human rights impacts of the food system. Namely across: nutrition, food safety, environmental impact, land sovereignty and labour rights.
It will oversee independent monitoring and verification. Future uses of the framework are expected to include benchmarking, integration into policy-driven data collection, and a consumer-facing front of pack label, an Omnilabel.
OmniAction began as a campaign by food systems B2B title Quota.Media in connection to the UN Food Systems Summit. This success saw advocacy turn into action – hence OmniAction.
Further background:

UN FSS proposal
Pre-Food Systems Summit event
UN Food Systems Summit side event

Sign up here to join the event on January 27th.
