The Food Foundation Podcast

Stuart Gillespie , writer and consultant for The Food Foundation, tells us why we need cities to perform a radical overhaul of the food system to balance power and prioritise human and planetary health, rather than profit. Stuart explains how The Food Foundation, Birmingham City Council , and the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact came together in 2021 to create a global food justice pledge to encourage...

This week, Danny McCubbin, founder and author of The Good Kitchen reports on the Food Foundation's latest survey on the increasing food insecurity faced by people with disabilities. Food insecurity levels in the UK have reached unprecedented highs over the past few years, first in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and now continuing through the cost of living crisis. Disabled people have been...

In this week's Pod Bites, Joss MacDonald , Public Affairs Lead at the Food Foundation, tells us about the Liberal Democrat Party's policies on food in the aftermath of the party's spring conference in York,  Click here for the Food Foundation's manifesto. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's Pod Bite, 18 year-old, Dev Sharma , Food Foundation Young Food Ambassadors and chair of the UK Parliament Youth Select Committee on its very first inquiry into the Cost of Living crisis. The Youth Select Committee is the first youth Oarliamentary inquiry of its kind into the cost of living with the same powers as any Parliamentary Select Committee. Dev explains what happened when it...

Hannah Brinsden, head of policy and advocacy at the Food Foundation talks about the spring budget. Assessing its commitments to support public health, low income families and also to support people through the cost of living crisis, she finds a mixed bag and a number of missed opportunities. Click here for more on the budget from Hannah and here for the Food Foundation's Manifesto . Hosted on Acas...

In this week's Pod Bites, Shona Goudie , Policy and Advocacy Manager at the Food Foundation, digs deep into the latest statistics on food insecurity. The Food Foundation report finds that families stuck in food insecurity are buying less fruit and veg than last year as UK’s health divide widens. Click here for the Food Foundation Food Insecurity Tracker, and here for the Manifesto . Hosted on...

This week, we hear more about how families face a range of barriers to feeding their infants, whether they breastfeed or formula feed. Following the investigation into infant formula prices carried out by the The Competition and Markets Authority, Vicky Sibson , Director at First Steps Nutrition, tells us how it can influence feeding decisions.  For more on The Food Foundation's report on for...

Guest presenter, Gemma Ogston, author of The Healing Cookbook looks at the Food Foundation's second Early Years report exploring the barriers to breastfeeding. The  Food Foundation  has just published this in-depth analysis revealing a flawed system in which parents face multiple barriers to provide babies with the basic nutrients needed for development before the age of two. It shows ho...

Jo Ralling, head of campaigns at the Food Foundation talks us through some of the week's big reports on about child health and how we can fix the NHS. For more information on the The Times Commission, click here As we head towards the next general election, the Food Foundation is calling on policymakers to recognise the central importance of the food system in shaping the nation's health and wealt...

In this week's Pod Bites, Dan Parker, Chief Executive of Veg Power tells us about Eat Them to Defeat Them 2024, the TV advertising campaign to get kids eating more veg. As the media campaign kicks off again on Feb 17th, the schools programme follows with 637,000 children across the UK in over 2,500 primary and special schools joining in classroom activities and tasting events to make vegetables fu...

This week, Poppy O'Toole , Michelin-trained chef and author and content creator, known as Poppy Cooks, looks at the release of the final progress report from the Peas Please partnership. Peas Please is a partnership campaign led by the Food Foundation with Nourish Scotland, Food Sense Wales and Food NI to make it easier for everyone in the UK to eat more vegetables. Funded by the National Lottery...

 In this week’s Pod Bites, Anna Taylor, Executive Director of the Food Foundation talks us through the Labour Party's seven point Child Health Action Plan which was announced last week. Click here for the Children’s Right2Food dashboard, and here for the Food Foundation Manifesto. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's Podbite, Leticija Petrovic , local food policy lead at Food Foundation reports back from last week's 15th annual Oxford Real Farming conference. Leticija led a Food Foundation hosted session which explored the leadership that local authorities can have in making food and policy change, and shared the findings of its work with Birmingham City Council , Kent University and a number of...

Philip Lymbery, the Chief Executive of Compassion in World Farming, the leading international farmed animal welfare environmental organisation gives us his New Year message. He looks at how far we have come as a food movement in terms of climate, food justice and animal welfare, and predicts that a future royal banquet will include cultivated meat from stem cells.  Click here for more from Co...

Laiba, Dev and Jani are just some of the Young Food Ambassadors for the Food Foundation who report from the front line of food insecurity and campaign for the right to food for every child in the UK. The Sheila McKechnie (SMK) Foundation awarded the YFAs second place in the ‘ Young Campaigner Award ’ category for our Feed the Future campaign . It recognises how much they have achieved during...

As we approach the end of 2023, Natasha Ricketts , founder of the Evelyn Community Food Store , former Mayoress of Lewisham and friend of the Food Foundation Podcast looks back on the year. We first met Natasha in Lockdown and found how people joining a community food store found so much more than food boxes. Now, she finds an unprecedented rise in membership and tells us how the food store has be...

On this week's Pod Bites, Sarah Buszard , Responsible Investor Engagement lead for the Food Foundation is just back from COP28 in Dubai with a 10-minute briefing from a food campaigner's point of view. She tells us how and why food was featured much more prominently on the agenda than ever before, why institutional investors are so interested in food systems transformation, and news of a global co...

In this week's Pod Bites, Philip Pothen , Director of Engagement at the University of Kent tells us about The Right to Food University.  Inspired by a visit to the University by UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhri Philip tells us how he established a Right to Food University. Bringing together Kent's research and innovation, its links with businesses, teaching, curricul...

This week, guest presenter, Leyla Kazim of Radio 4's The Food Programme looks at the Food Foundation's 2023 State of the Nation's Food Industry Report - or SOFI - on the retailers and out of home businesses leading the way towards a healthier and more sustainable diet. With Linus Pardoe of the Good Food Institute , Ita McMahon of Castlefield Sustainable Investing, Stephanie Sargent, youth lea...

This week, Vera Zakharov, the local action coordinator for Sustain on why families with no recourse to public funds deserve access to Healthy Start, a vital nutritional safety net for their youngest children. As a letter from 148 signatories lands this week on the desk of the new Minister for Primary Care and Public Health, Andrea Leadsom outlining an immediate call for a consultation on extending...

Danielle Glavin, Head of Communications at Chefs in Schools on the result of a survey which found that a third of families can no longer afford hot school lunches Food and children’s charities are calling on the Government to urgently expand eligibility for free school meals after new research found that a third of families can no longer afford hot school lunches. The polling of parents across Eng...

In the fifth episode of this series on the broken plate, the Food Foundation 's annual report on the state of the nation's food system, Dominique Woolf, author of Dominique's Kitchen and winner of The Jamie Oliver Great Cookbook Challenge on Channel Four looks at the impact of sugary cereals and yoghurts clearly marketed at children on their dental health.  Click here for the full Broken Plat...

In this Pod Bite, Shona Goudie, policy and advocacy manager at the Food Foundation brings us up to speed on the Kids Guarantee Scheme and what supermarkets are doing to provide the 900,000 school children in the UK living in food insecurity with a healthy packed lunch. Click here for the Food Foundation manifesto. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sue Pritchard, chief executive at the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission on the National Conversation About Food. Sue explains the ideas behind this project which gathers citizens to understand what people really think about food and talk about how we can fix food, fix the planet and fix our health.  Click here for more information on FFCC's work and here for the Food Foundation's manif...

In the 4th episode of this 12-part series on the Food Foundation's annual Broken Plate report on the state of the nation's food system, guest presenter, TV chef and author of Cook Clever, Shivi Ramoutar tells us about the rise in fast food outlets in the UK.  Leticija Petrovic, City Food Policy lead at The Food Foundation tells us how Birmingham City Council, one of those deprived areas,...