Pod Bites: Super El Niño warning

Pod Bites: Super El Niño warning

Tony Burdon, Head of the Food Business Transformation team at the Food Foundation tells us about forecasts for a Super El Nino coming our way, and what that means for food prices and supplies.  Click here [https://foodfoundation.org.uk/sites/default/files/2023-09/Election%2024_Manifesto.pdf] for the Food Foundation newsletter and here [https://foodfoundation.org.uk/news/researching-impact-climateflation-food-prices]to learn more about our work on climateflation. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Pod Bites: How to end the school meals lottery

Rob Oxley from the Public Health Nutrition Team at the University of York tells us about Fix Our Food's latest research into the benefits of free school meal auto enrolment.  Click here [https://fixourfood.org/what-we-do/our-activities/schools-and-nurseries/gated-content/] 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.

Pod Bites: Communities driving change

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.