There is growing interest in obesogenic environments — and that includes the proliferation of cheap fast food outlets and how the number of fast food outlets in an area is associated with the level of obesity. Continue reading
RSPH on tackling the childhood obesity epidemic
The Royal Society for Public Health have just published an excellent report outlining the drivers of childhood obesity and suggesting the following measures to tackle the epidemic: Continue reading
Why is there acute hunger in the UK and what is to be done about it?
Birmingham Food Council Director and member of the Fabian Society’s Commission on Food and Poverty, John Middleton, has published interesting insights on food poverty in a bmj blog. Continue reading
Power outages: How resilient is the food sector?
After hearing a sobering assessment of the UK’s energy security — and the looming energy gap — by Professor Martin Freer way back in January 2012, I wrote the gist of his argument as ‘expect a change in the Climate Change Act 2008 sometime around 2015’ in a blogpost entitled Will the lights go out? Continue reading
Food aid: what we can learn from India?
India’s Targeted Public Distribution System (TDPS) aims to provide subsidised food to 800 million people – 67% of India’s population, 10% of the entire world population…
The Government’s Sector Resilience Plans
HM Government publishes “Sector Resilience Plans”. The latest one was published in 2014 and can be found here.
The food sector ‘plan’ is on page 11, and reads thus: Continue reading
A city-level response to the drivers for emergency food aid . . .
Our project report Food insecurity in Birmingham — a city-level response? was submitted it to the APPG on Hunger and Food Poverty at the end of October. They thanked us for our ‘huge contribution’. Continue reading
Food Standards Agency CEO Catherine Brown addresses our Annual Meeting
These are the slides Catherine Brown, the FSA’s CEO used when she addressed our first Annual Meeting held on 4th November 2015. Continue reading
Question and Answer for Catherine Brown . . .
Jim Parle: Why doesn’t everyone who sells food have to show their food standards hygiene rating? Continue reading
