The Food Foundation Podcast

Pete Smith, Professor of Global Change and Soils at the University of Aberdeen tells us about the Climate Inflation Project on how climate change affects food inflation causing food price spikes around the world, and how that affects people in the UK's most disadvantaged communities. Click here for more information on the project, here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On this week's Pod Bite, we hear about the launch of two reports on the accessibility of healthy food for children.As part of the Feed the Future campaign, The Food Foundation hosted a special event at Central Hall in Westminster this week to showcase the benefits of Free School Meals has on academic attainment levels, school food quality, food insecurity, obesity, behaviour, school attendance, and local economies.Policy and Advocacy Manager at the Food Foundation, Shona Goudie tells us about the launch of the Superpower of Free School Meals report at the event, while Barnardo's head of Policy and Public Affairs Alesha de Freitas gives us the highlights of its Nourishing the Future report.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter.