The Food Foundation Podcast
The Food Foundation Podcast takes you inside the UK’s fight against food insecurity, exposing the gaps, holding big food to account, and celebrating the initiatives that make a real difference.
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Pod Bites: Why prison food matters (opens the original)
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Freya Harapp, a registered nutritionist at Food Matters , tells us how food is being used as a powerful lever for rehabilitation in prisons. Click here for more details about the charity's work in prisons, here for its latest report and here to sign up to The Food Foundation newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Pod Bites: Who controls our food? (opens the original)
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Nésa Depeza Njie, part of the Recipe for Change team at Sustain is back to update us on We're Fed Up! campaign, a people-powered call for healthy, affordable food. Click here for more information on We're Fed Up, and here for the Food Foundation newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Pod Bites: Can the UK grow enough food? (opens the original)
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Alice English, a senior project officer in the Place Base Food Systems team at the Food Foundation tells us about a new report published this week called Farming for Five a Day, which looks at the resilience of the UK's supply of fruit, vegetables, and beans in a changing climate. Click here for more information and here for the Food Foundation newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Breaking the food bank cycle (opens the original)
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Leon Ballin, Place-based Food System Manager at the Food Foundation is joined by a panel of experts to explore household food insecurity. Andrew Forsey, National Director of Feeding Britain , Penny Walters, Food Ambassador at the Food Foundation , Susanne Jaspers, Senior Research Fellow with the SOAS Food Studies Cente r and Elaine Morgan, the Principal for Strategy Reform at the Greater Manchester Combined Authority debate the question of whether the government's commitment to ending mass depen
Pod Bites: Holiday hunger warning (opens the original)
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Hannah Abrams, Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer at the Food Foundation, argues the case for the HAF (Holiday Activities and Food) Programme that keeps kids on Free School Meals properly nourished during the school holidays. She argues that with the Government's pledge to expand school meals to an additional half a million children from the September 2026 school term, the expansion of HAF is a missing link. If you'd like to support Feeding Britain's campaign to expand HAF alongside free school
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