Pod Bites: Can beans transform school food?

Pod Bites: From the Ground Up

Matthew Thomson from Sustainable Food Cornwall tells us about From The Ground Up [https://ffcc.co.uk/publications/from-the-ground-up], a report from the Citizens Advisory Council's What Works Here inquiries into local food systems. The Citizen Advisory Council comprises diverse citizens drawn the Food Foundation’s Food Ambassadors programme and from Food and Farming Countryside Commission's [https://ffcc.co.uk] The Food Conversation. The Citizen Advisory Council has been working with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs since the summer of 2025 to ensure that citizen knowledge is embedded in the development of England’s food strategy.   The Citizen Advisory Council travelled to four different regions in England for the What Works Here Inquires: Cornwall, York and North Yorkshire, Liverpool and Merseyside, and the North East. Keenan Humble, mentioned in the Pod Bite, is Director for Feeding Liverpool [https://www.feedingliverpool.org]and supported with the Liverpool and Merseyside inquiry. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Pod Bites: Beans mean business

Could beans change the world? With the climate changing, the cost of living going up and our guts suffering from the fibre gap [https://foodfoundation.org.uk/news/uk-still-failing-meet-basic-dietary-guidelines], 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 [https://foodfoundation.org.uk/keen-bean-pledgers] for more information about our Keen Bean businesses.   Don't miss out on snap analysis and updates: sign up here [https://foodfoundation.org.uk/newsletter] for the Food Foundation newsletter. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Pod Bites: 10 years of rescuing food

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 [https://thefelixproject.org] for more information and here [https://foodfoundation.org.uk/sites/default/files/2023-09/Election%2024_Manifesto.pdf] for the Food Foundation newsletter. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Broken Plate 2026

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 [https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/broken-plate-2026], and subscribe to our newsletter here [https://foodfoundation.org.uk/newsletter]to make sure you don't miss any of our updates.  ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Pod Bites: Can beans transform school food?

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. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.