The Food Foundation Podcast

In the first of this series of Election Special Pod Bites in which Anna Taylor, Executive Director at the Food Foundation, tells us about what's been happening in the world of politics and food since the general election campaign has kicked off, we hear her thoughts on the first leaders' TV debate.Click here to read the Food Foundation Manifesto You can also sign up to our newsletter to ensure you hear about our webinars and new areas of research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, to kick start a series of Food Foundation analysis on the Election campaign, Lucy Upton, paediatric dietitian, feeding therapist and founder of The Children's Dietitian looks ahead to the 2025 food Foundation's Broken Plate report.This annual flagship report reveals the health of our food system, its impact on our lives and the remedies we need to put in place. Dr Alice Wiseman, Director of Public Health for Newcastle and Gateshead, Baroness Joan Walmsley, chair of the House of Lords' Food, Diet and Obesity Committee, Food Foundation Food Ambassador, Dominic Watters and its chief executive, Anna Taylor look at the factors creating an increasingly obesogenic Britain.Click here to read the Food Foundation ManifestoYou can also sign up to our newsletter to ensure you hear about our webinars and new areas of research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rebecca Tobi, Senior Business and Investor Engagement Manager at the Food Foundation looks at the impact of the Kid's Food Guarantee, a roadmap of actions for retailers and a set of asks for Government, a year on.Click here for more information on the Kid's Food Guarantee, and here for the Food Foundation's latest report on the packed lunches.Click here for the Food Foundation ManifestoYou can also sign up to our newsletter to ensure you hear about our webinars and new areas of research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 In this week's Pod Bite,Melanie Vaxevanakis, founder of the Mazi Project in Bristol tells us about the importance of choice and dignity within food provision for marginalised young people, and why we need a call for an overhaul of the food system.Click here for more information on Mazi, and here for the Food Foundation manifesto.You can also sign up to our newsletter to ensure you hear about our webinars and new areas of research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's Podbite, Kathleen Kerridge, one of the adult food ambassadors for the Food Foundation, reports back after giving evidence to the House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee.One of the questions she was asked by Baroness Rosie Boycott was how much she spends on food in a week. Here she breaks that down to show just how hard it is to feed a family healthily on a low income.Click here for more information on the committee and here for the Food Foundation manifesto.You can also sign up to our newsletter to ensure you hear about our webinars and new areas of research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's Podbite, Veg Power's CEO, Dan Parker tells us about Simply Veg's new initiative to support families and kids in eating more vegetables, highlighting the challenges faced by parents. He says that the launch of a new e-learning platform which was developed with the involvement of nutritionists and child psychology experts, emphasizes the importance of personalized experiences in health education.Click here for more information Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, ahead of the mayoral elections on May 2nd, Theo Michaels chef and author of Cypriana, looks at why children's health should be a priority for all the candidates, but particularly those in London. Hannah Brinsden, head of policy and advocacy at the Food Foundation explains the link between poverty and mental health in the capital where one in five children between eight and 16 report mental health problems.Kadra Abdinasir, Associate Director of Policy at the charity Centre for Mental Health unpacks the main issues affecting children in LondonRuth Fitzharris is the campaign assistant for Mums for Lungs and tells us why air pollution should be one of the key asks for the mayoral candidates.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here for more information on Nourishing the Nation.You can also sign up to our newsletter to ensure you hear about our webinars and new areas of research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's Podbite, Leticija Petrovic, local food policy lead at the Food Foundation tells us about how the Feed the Future campaign initiated in 2020 by Marcus Rashford comes to West Midlands this month. Please add your voice to our campaign - it only takes two clicks of a button: https://bit.ly/3rlmvWKClick here to read the Food Foundation ManifestoYou can also sign up to our newsletter to ensure you hear about our webinars and new areas of research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's Pod Bite, Holly Gabriel, nutritionist and campaign lead for consumer health at Share Action, tells us about the shareholder resolution that a coalition, including The Food Foundation is filing at Nestle to calls on the company to increase the amount of healthier food it sells.Click here for more on the coalition behind the initiative, and here for the Food Foundation Manifesto.You can also sign up to our newsletter to ensure you hear about our webinars and new areas of research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stuart Gillespie, writer and consultant for The Food Foundation, tells us why we need cities to perform a radical overhaul of the food system to balance power and prioritise human and planetary health, rather than profit.Stuart explains how The Food Foundation, Birmingham City Council, and the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact came together in 2021 to create a global food justice pledge to encourage collaboration and collective working, empowering the voices of cities nationally and internationally.Click here for more information and here for the Food Foundation Manifesto.You can also sign up to our newsletter to ensure you hear about our webinars and new areas of research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.