The Food Foundation Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Dr Hannah Brinsden, Head of Policy and Advocacy at the Food Foundation, leads a panel of experts to talk about Early Years nutrition, drawing on some of the findings of the Food Foundation's recent Early Years report series.

She is joined by Food Foundation Ambassador, Glory Omoaka, Corin Bell, the new CEO of Alexandra Rose, and Amy Brown, Professor of Public Health at Swansea University.

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Once a staple in British kitchens for more than 2,000 years, the fava bean has been all but forgotten - until now! Known for its versatility and low-carbon footprint, this ancient legume is making a comeback on plates and in farms across the country.

In episode two of our Bang in Some Beans podcast series, chef Melissa Hemsley hears from Josiah Meldrum of Hodmedod's and farmer Emma Loder-Symonds tells us why she mills her fava beans; and the University of Reading's Raising the Pulse project presents a vision of how fava bean flour could change the conversation around white sliced bread, while chef and author Tim Anderson gives us his recipe for miso twists which you'll find here along with all the recipes in the podcast series.

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Andrew Stark, Senior Researcher and Policy Manager at Eating Better, discusses the work of 160 organisations advocating for UK government improvements in the food system. The NGO , itself an alliance of over 70 organisations, has published 17 recommendations for a coherent food policy, emphasising a joined-up healthy food and sustainable farming plan, nature-friendly farming, and affordable, culturally appropriate diets.

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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 London

Ruth 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.

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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/3rlmvWK

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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.

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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.

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This week, Danny McCubbin, founder and author of The Good Kitchen reports on the Food Foundation's latest survey on the increasing food insecurity faced by people with disabilities.

Food insecurity levels in the UK have reached unprecedented highs over the past few years, first in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and now continuing through the cost of living crisis. Disabled people have been particularly exposed to food insecurity, facing stark inequalities when it comes to accessing and affording the food that they need.

Shona Goudie, policy and advocacy manager at the Food Foundation, Dan White from Disabilities Rights UK, Simon Shaw, Co-Investigator, Food at Home, University of Sheffield and Sabine Goodwin from IFAN break down the stats to paint a devastating picture of life for many people living with disability in Broken Britain.

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In this week's Pod Bites, Joss MacDonald, Public Affairs Lead at the Food Foundation, tells us about the Liberal Democrat Party's policies on food in the aftermath of the party's spring conference in York, 

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In this week's Pod Bite, 18 year-old, Dev Sharma, Food Foundation Young Food Ambassadors and chair of the UK Parliament Youth Select Committee on its very first inquiry into the Cost of Living crisis.

The Youth Select Committee is the first youth Oarliamentary inquiry of its kind into the cost of living with the same powers as any Parliamentary Select Committee. Dev explains what happened when it presented its findings from its report on the cost of living and its impact on young people's health and well being. 

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