

The Food Foundation Podcast
The Food Foundation
The Food Foundation podcast is the voice of the charity that tackles the growing challenges facing the UK’s food. Reporting from the frontline of food insecurity, it reveals the gaps in the food system and the inspiring initiatives that are fixing them. From the stigma of free school meals to the enormous impact of holiday activities and food on hungry children, we find the stories that change lives, bind communities and make the politicians sit up and listen. The podcast, then named Right2Food, was the winner of the 2021 Guild of Food Writers' Awards for Investigative Food Work.Producer: Gilly Smith for the Food Foundation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Oct 10, 2025 • 9min
Pod Bites: Can we eat to save the planet?
Anna Taylor, Executive Director at The Food Foundation analyses the latest EAT-Lancet Commission report which warns that food systems are breaching planetary limits.The 2025 Report on Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Food Systems presents the most comprehensive to date.Click here to find out how Climateflation is affecting food prices and here to sign up to our newsletter for update and analysis of food system developments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 3, 2025 • 10min
Pod Bites: Food on the Fringe at Labour Conference
Joss McDonald, Public Affairs Lead at the Food Foundation reports back from the Labour Party Annual Conference in Liverpool, and finds a party not blowing its own trumpet on its food policy wins.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.

Sep 26, 2025 • 7min
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.

Sep 18, 2025 • 50min
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.

Sep 12, 2025 • 13min
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.

Sep 5, 2025 • 7min
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.

Aug 29, 2025 • 8min
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.

Aug 22, 2025 • 8min
Pod Bites: Food Shocks
As the Government publishes its monthly food inflation statistics, Anna Taylor, the Executive Director of the Food Foundation tells us what's that means for the weekly supermarket shop.Click here for more information on the Food Prices Tracker.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.

Aug 15, 2025 • 10min
Pod Bites: The nature & biodiversity cost of our diets
Sarah Buszard, the Responsible Investor Lead at the Food Foundation tells us about our latest briefing that discusses the critical relationship between dietary patterns and the environmental impacts of food production on nature and biodiversity loss and the need for systemic change towards more sustainable food systems.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.

Aug 8, 2025 • 10min
Pod Bites: Can Recipe Boxes improve our diets?
Noah Cooke, PhD student at MRC Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge University, tells us about a pilot project exploring the impact of recipe-boxes on dietary quality and food agency in households with school-aged children. 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.


