Fareshare is a food redistribution charity. Their concept is simple but brilliant – take edible food that would otherwise have been thrown away, and feed it to people in need.
Latest blog posts
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Food system dynamics: Part III — Vested interests
Posted on 15th April 2018 by Kate Cooper
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Food system dynamics: Part II — Follow the money
Posted on 9th April 2018 by Kate Cooper
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Food system dynamics: Part I — Follow the money . . . but it isn’t here
Posted on 5th April 2018 by Kate Cooper
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VAT: A really useful point of sale metric
Posted on 3rd April 2018 by Kate Cooper
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Parveen Mehta on the growing global competition for food
Posted on 10th March 2018 by Kate Cooper
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1950 on the left: Global life expectancy was 46 years. In Africa the average was 36 In India 35 years 2015 on the right: Global life expectancy is 71 years. In Africa it is 61 (same as Japan in 1950) In India it is 68 (close to the healthiest country in 1950 – Norway with 72) pic.twitter.com/7mtheYLsXK Retweeted by BhamFoodCouncil 3 hours ago
Looking forward to presenting @InsideGovt Working Towards Global Food Security event on Thursday: insidegovernment.co.uk/food-security-… 18 hours ago
They do if you don't want them to likely rot before they are eaten, creating large amounts of food waste with a potentially much greater environmental impact than simply disposing of the plastic responsibly. #Complex twitter.com/robynsparkles2… Retweeted by BhamFoodCouncil 23 hours ago
ME: ‘Eating less meat is probably a good thing for the planet.’ 24hrs later vegans & zero carbers still angrily argue on my feed. (Note: ‘Less’ does not mean ‘none’.) Science rarely fits extreme narratives. In our world today maybe that’s why there is growing mistrust of it? Retweeted by BhamFoodCouncil 1 day ago
Monday Factoid: All the crops we eat originate from as little as 8 points on the planet. Each pretty much perfectly coincides with where agriculture was independently invented over the course of human history. #VavilovCentres pic.twitter.com/938TLg92Ek Retweeted by BhamFoodCouncil 1 day ago
Battery acid & brick dust adulterated coffee; over 21 tonnes of it seized in Vietnam. Another horror #foodfraud report. Think of this as you sip your morning brew. dtinews.vn/en/news/017/56… Retweeted by BhamFoodCouncil 3 days ago
BBC News - No-deal Brexit 'disastrous' for food firms bbc.co.uk/news/business-… 1 day ago
Great views from Leasowes across to Wales - a mere 8 or so miles from Birmingham city centre. Wonderful. pic.twitter.com/DWZ83U4yLW 2 days ago