The Food Foundation Podcast

Pod Bites: A £600m School Meals Windfall for Farmers

Barbara Crowther, Children's Food Campaign Manager at Sustain, the Alliance for Better Food and Farming, tells us about how the expansion of healthy school meals to all children could work better, not just for children's health, but also for local, sustainable and British farming.Click here for more information on Sustain's Follow the Carrot campaign, and here to sign up for the Food Foundation newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bigger than a crisis: Why is our health a postcode lottery?

Hannah Brinsden, Head of Policy and Advocacy at the Food Foundation is joined by Food Foundation Ambassador and mother of two young children from Hartlepool, Barbara Achingale, Vic Harper, CEO of The Bread and Butter Thing, and Amanda Bailey, Director of the North East Child Poverty Commission to talk about diet and health inequalities across England.With the publication this week of a new dashboard from The Food Foundation which estimates the prevalence of diet-related disease by constituency, drawing on local authority data, the panel explores the factors in the North East which make strong links to deprivation. Read The Food Foundation's latest news here and sign up for our newsletter here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pod Bites: Better off with Beans

Rebecca Tobi, Head of Food Business Transformation at the Food Foundation tells us about a major new programme of work The Food Foundation is kicking off across the UK this year to better support everyone in the UK to eat more beans. Read The Food Foundation's latest news here and sign up for our newsletter here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pod Bites: Harvesting Veg Power

Dan Parker, Chief Executive of Veg Power, tells us about the Veg Power Summit happening on 18th September, which will brings together 100 food sector leaders with a shared purpose to improve children's dietary health.Click here for more information on Veg Power, read The Food Foundation's latest news here and sign up for our newsletter here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pod Bites: The financial risks of unhealthy food

Garance Boullenger, Lead at the Healthy Markets Initiative at Share Action, a UK based NGO, campaigning for a fairer, healthier financial system tells us about a powerful move from a group of investors to urge the UK Government to introduce ambitious mandatory health reporting for the food industry.Click here to read the Investor Letter from Share Action, here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.