The Food Foundation Podcast

The Food Foundation’s Executive Director Anna Taylor reports back from the 2025 Oxford Farming Conference where she presented a joined-up horticulture and healthy food strategy, making the link between the UK’s poor diet with social inequity. She argued that the UK’s increasing reliance on highly processed cheap food has led to a dangerously weak fresh produce sector and a downward spiral for health.Here she takes us through what she sees as the opportunities for securing more minimally processed foods from farms produced in Britain. She explains that this could deliver benefits for both farmers and consumers at the same time, and help to tackle some of these crisis at either end of the supply chain.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Richard Kipling, researcher in the TABLE initiative at Oxford University tells us about our work on the Reckoning with Regeneration Project. This one year project, funded by the AGILE initiative, focuses on regenerative agriculture, and examines whether or not it can deliver sustainable, nutritious food and a just food system. Click on the links above for more information. Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kelly Parsons from the University of Cambridge tells us about an exciting initiative to make the food served in Birmingham Children's Hospital more environmentally sustainable. This initiative is being delivered and evaluated as part of the Mandala Consortium Research project, one of the research projects funded by the UK Research and Innovation Program on transforming the UK food system and help create a 'net zero' NHS. Click here to find more about the project.Click for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this last Pod Bites of the year, Food Foundation Ambassadors, 16 year-old Alex Istrate and Adult Food Ambassador, Dominic Watters look back on their highlights as advocates for a fairer, more sustainable food system.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sarah Pullen, Food System Lead at Birmingham City Council, tells us about the city's journey to transform our food system, and the Birmingham Eating Guidance Exploration report into how to create an environment where people have the capability, opportunity and motivation to eat a nutritious and sustainable diet.Click here for the resources and to read the report, and click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Hannah Brinsden, head of policy and advocacy at the Food Foundation on the latest Government Food Security Report and the announcement that there will be a new food strategy. Click here for more information on the report, the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Following last week's BBC documentary, Irresistible: Why We Can't Stop Eating by Chris Van Tulleken, Anna Taylor, executive director of The Food Foundation leads a panel discussion on ultra processed food and what we should do to tackle some of the problems arising from eating so much of it.The panel comprises Kimberley Wilson, chartered psychologist who's also qualified in nutrition and the author of Unprocessed. Maurice Cousins, head of campaigns at Public First on the political perspective, Food Foundation Adult Food Ambassador, Kathleen Kerridge and Beccy Cooper MP, Labour MP for Worthing West, public health doctor and who sits on the Health Select Committee.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Katharine Vincent, director of Reconnect London on More than a Meal, an independent evaluation of the first year of London's policy to provide free school meals to all primary age children in state funded schools.Read our Food Foundation Manifesto and subscribe to our newsletter so you don't miss any updates. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rebecca Tobi, Senior Business and Investor Engagement Manager at the Food Foundation hosts a panel discussion on this year's SOFI report. This annual report tracks and assesses the progress of major UK food businesses towards healthier and more sustainable diets.Joining Rebecca on the panel are: Lauren Woodley, Group Nutrition Leader at Nomad foods, Claire Atkins Morris, Director of Sustainability at Sodexo, Nilani Sritheran, Group Head of Healthy and Sustainable Diets at Sainsbury's, and Matt Lomas, Engagement Director at Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation.Read the SOFI report, and the Food Foundation Manifesto and subscribe to our newsletter so you don't miss any updates. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alfie Slade, the Government Affairs lead at the Obesity Health Alliance on how Britain feels about the food business.The Recipe for Change campaign explores the public’s attitude towards a new levy on unhealthy food and drink.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and don't forget to sign up to our newsletter - find out more about the Recipe for Change campaign here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.