The Food Foundation Podcast

Could beans change the world?With the climate changing, the cost of living going up and our guts suffering from the fibre gap, beans are a real opportunity. Now it's time to scale these tasty superheroes. Paul Newnham, CEO of the SDG2 Advocacy Hub and the Chief Bean Officer at Beans is How, reports from London Climate Action Week on the growth of the Bang in Some Beans campaign - now at 41 Keen Bean businesses who have committed to the movement. The Food Foundation and Veg Power have teamed up on a mission to double UK bean consumption by 2028. Click here for more information about our Keen Bean businesses. Don't miss out on snap analysis and updates: sign up here for the Food Foundation newsletter.

Charlotte Hill, Chief Executive of the newly merged Felix Project and FareShare, tells us about the last 10 years of the Felix Project which rescues and redistributes surplus food.Click here for more information and here for the Food Foundation newsletter.

Anna Taylor, Executive Director of The Food Foundation, hosts a panel of cross-party parliamentarians and councillors playing an important part in trying to shape our food system as they discuss the findings of our flagship Broken Plate report. Labour MP Paulette Hamilton, Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Dyke, Green Party Emily O'Brien and former Conservative Health minister and member of The House of Lords Lord James Bethell debate the implications of the current food environment and what should happen next. Read Broken Plate here, and subscribe to our newsletter here to make sure you don't miss any of our updates. 

Dr. Nicola Nixon from the Public Health Nutrition Team at the University of York tells us about the menu swaps pilot study in Fix Our Food, the project which sets out to understand how we might transform our food system to a regenerative one, which supports human and population health.

Chris Jaccarini, Land, Food and Farming Analyst at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit tells us about Rockets and Feathers, a new piece of research that looks at how quickly food prices come back down once they've risen. Click here for the executive summary of the Rockets and Feathers report, and here for the Food Foundation newsletter.

Hannah Brinsden, Head of Policy and Advocacy at The Food Foundation, tells us about the results of polling just in related to the Good Food Bill Campaign. She also discusses a raft of food policy updates in what has been a week for the future of food and public health.Learn more about the polling here and click here for the Food Foundation newsletter.

Anna Taylor, Executive Director of the Food Foundation, tell us about a new report published by the Energy Climate Intelligence Unit about the rise in food prices. Click here for more information, and here for the Food Foundation newsletter.

Nésa Depeza Njie from The Recipe for Change campaign tells us about We're Fed Up, the people-powered call for healthy, affordable food which launched earlier this month. This campaign led by Sustain, Food Foundation, Action on Salt and Sugar, Impact on Urban Health, the British Heart Foundation and Obesity Health Alliance was co-developed with people from across the country who want to see a change to their shopping experience.  Click here for more information on the campaign and here for the Food Foundation newsletter.