The Food Foundation Podcast

This week, Rebecca Tobi, Senior Business and Investor Engagement Manager at the Food Foundation hosts a special panel discussion with four representatives from food businesses and the investment community to discuss what they want and need from the first 100 days of a new government. This is, typically, a really interesting and critical time for new governments to set out their direction of travel when it comes to policy priorities and general intent.Recorded before the General Election, the panel of Richard Hall, Vice President and General Secretary for the UK and Ireland at Danone, James Perry, co-founder and co-chair of Cook, Rachel Crossley, Head of Stewardship in Europe for BNP Paribas Asset Management, and Sophie Lawrence, Stewardship and Engagement Lead at Greenbank discuss how to face a dual public health and climate crises through action on the food system.   For further information, click on the links below:https://foodfoundation.org.uk/news/lobbying-good-food-businesses-and-investors-share-their-vision-better-food-systemhttps://foodfoundation.org.uk/news/lobbying-good-why-we-need-regulation-level-playing-field-food-industryhttps://foodfoundation.org.uk/news/lobbying-good-why-investors-should-be-lobbying-better-food-systemClick here for the Food Foundation's own Manifesto, and here to sign up for the Newsletter.https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/nourishing-nation-mandatory-reporting-food-businesses-0https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/power-and-accountability-evolving-landscape-corporate-reporting

Anna Taylor, Executive Director of the Food Foundation digs into the Labour and Green Party manifestos and assesses their commitment to fixing Britain's broken food system.Click here for the Food Foundation's own Manifesto, and here to sign up for the Newsletter.

In the third in a special series of Election Pod Bites, Shona Goudie, Policy and Advocacy Manager at The Food Foundation tells us about our latest report, A Neglected Generation. From the reduction in height of 5 year-olds to the rise in obesity among 10-11 year-olds by 30%, to Type 2 diabetes among under 25s up 22%, we remind a nation about to vote of the shocking deterioration in children's health over the last decade.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here for the FF newsletter.

In the second of the Food Foundation's Election Special Pod Bites, Executive Director, Anna Taylor responds to the policy issues in the Lib Dem and Conservative manifestos as well as the relaunch of Labour's child health plans.Head to the Food Foundation Manifesto to find more on what we need from the next Government to fix the broken food system.Click here to sign up for the Food Foundation Newsletter

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.

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.

 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.

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.