The Food Foundation Podcast

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 fun.Click here for more information on Eat Them to Defeat Them, and here for the Food Foundation Manifesto Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Community Fund, it's a joined up movement of veg advocates and veg cities who have made massive wins over the past four years.Pete Ritchie from Nourish Scotland, Katie Palmer from Food Sense Wales and Michele Shirlow from Food NI assess the key highlights, while Gareth Mcanlis of Henderson Group explains how it feels to be a local food hero. But the report shows that the amount of vegetables bought by households in the UK has fallen to its lowest level in 50 years. This highlights the impact the cost of living crisis is having on low-income families who are struggling to afford healthier options.Click for the Courgette Pilot from Food Sense Wales and the Food Foundation's Manifesto   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 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 schools. Click here for more information on The Oxford Real Farming Conference and here for the Food Foundation Manifesto. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Compassion in World Farming and here for the Food Foundation Manifesto. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 the campaign, which calls on the Government to extend school meals eligibility in response to evidence that 800,000 children living in poverty in England don’t get a Free School Meal. The Young Food Ambassadors helped to plan our ‘Superpowers of Free School Meals’ event in Westminster for MPs, performing a spoken word piece to an audience of over 200 people. They also worked with The Food Foundation to design a social media campaign and wrote to their MPs.  This campaign contributed to London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s commitment to extend Free School Meals to an additional 270,000 children for one year from September 2023 in London. While the campaign continues as so many children in poverty are still miss out on Free School Meals, we're grateful to the Sheila McKechnie Foundation for recognising the Young Food Ambassadors hard work and all they have achieved so far.Here Laiba, Dev and Jani look back on the year, remembering the residential where they planned the Feed the Future campaign and Laiba's lunch with Holly Lynch MP.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 become a portal for the most needy to find help.eveleyn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 commitment to address climate-related health impacts and align climate and health in policy processes.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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, curriculum and volunteer power, its students and staff, this is about a series of initiatives exploring how to deliver a fairer, more sustainable and more affordable food system.Click here for more information on The Food Foundation's work with The Right to Food University at Kent Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 leader of Act4Food, Ryan Holmes, Culinary Director, Business and Industry at Compass Group UK & Ireland, and Chloe MacKean, Business Engagement Manager at the Food Foundation.Click here for the Food Foundation manifesto Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.