The Food Foundation Podcast

In this week's Pod Bite, Hannah Brinsden, head of policy and advocacy at the Food Foundation, tells us about our new report on early years nutrition.This report is the third in the series conducting an in-depth study on early years food and nutrition to investigate how the food system and food policy is contributing to the high levels of overweight and obesity in early childhood.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.

Sonia Pombo, head of impact and research at Action on Salt, tells us about the charity's latest research published for Salt Awareness Week from May 12-18th, highlighting salt levels in ready meals and six ways we can reduce our salt intake.Click here for more information on Salt Awareness Week, here the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jessica Sinclair Taylor, Deputy Director of Feedback, on its new Retailer Targets report, Commitment Issues; Why UK retailers climate commitments are failing to deliver and what can be done to fix it. The research, commissioned by Feedback and The Food Foundation shows that despite the UK's 10 major supermarkets making a climate commitment every six days – they are failing against own promises.Click here for the report, the Food Foundation Manifesto, here for its report Low Hanging Fruit, and here to sign up for the newsletter.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alice English, Project Officer in the Business and Policy team at the Food Foundation tells us about a new policy pathway we have published this week in collaboration with Green Alliance and the Good Food Institute. Low Hanging Fruit is a set of pragmatic and easily implementable policy recommendations to boost plant-rich diets in the UK.Click here for more information on Low Hanging Fruit, the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lucy Heyderman, Citizen Engagement Manager at the Food Foundation and Yusuf Shobair, one of our Young Food Ambassadors introduce The Food Activist Toolkit which helps young people find their voice and make real change in the food system.Click here to find out more about the Toolkit, here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Discover how climate change is driving food inflation and creating economic challenges for vulnerable communities in the UK. The Climate Inflation Project sheds light on the correlation between climate events and skyrocketing food prices. Insights from Professor Pete Smith highlight the need for informed policymaking to protect those most affected. Learn about the project's goal to create models that address food security in the face of climate adversity.

Keira, one of the young food ambassadors at the Food Foundation, is with a panel of experts to find out about Auto Enrolment on Free School Meals. They explore how it can help the 250,000 children who are entitled to a free school meals but are missing out because of the barriers to registering.Professor Maria Bryant, researcher on Fix Our Food, the University of York's five-year research programme is joined by Myles Bremner, CEO of Bremner and co and a partner on the project, Peter Lamb MP, Councillor Gerald Vernon-Jackson, Deputy Chair of the Children and Young People's board at the Local Government Association and Rhett, a single father who reports from the front line of food poverty.Click on the links for more information on Fix our Food, the Food Foundation Manifesto and to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sarah Buszard, Responsible Investor Engagement Lead at the Food Foundation explains the findings of our latest report, Corporate Lobbying: The Dark Side of the Plate.  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.

Hannah Brinsden, head of policy and advocacy at the Food Foundation reflects on the Spring Statement, how it could impact on food insecurity and what some of the opportunities are in the next few months to try and address this problem. 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.

In this week's Pod Bites, Callum Morrissey , a 15-year-old Welsh Youth Parliament member of Clwyd West and young ambassador for the Food Foundation, discusses the Youth Parliament's efforts to tackle child poverty in Wales.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.