Tag: 11th May 2015

Food insecurity in Birmingham — a city level response?

We’ve just published the result of our project on food poverty, a discussion document Food insecurity in Birmingham — a city level response? We’re keen to get your responses to it. Please comment!

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Lorna Pusey, Care and Wellbeing manager at Lench’s Trust

Lorna is involved in the practical business of making sure people eat well – near the end of the conversation she shared this experience and some plans at Lench’s Trust to extend access to good meals to their wider...

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Martine Barons on taking steps rather than swallowing #foodpoverty whole

Martine Barons, is a Research Fellow in the department of statistics at the University of Warwick. She’s a mathmetician who seeks to understand complex problems involving many different types of organisations and people. Listen to everything she says –...

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The role of education in addressing #foodpoverty

Should people be taught how to eat healthily, and how to spend their money? Are these kind of skills part of the solution of reducing food poverty? Some views in the group that there’s a paternalism to it, a...

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What needs to be done to make a healthy eating Birmingham in 2025?

It’s the carrot and the stick with some things to entice people and some people to stop them. A session at the Birmingham Food Group spent time thinking of what needs to be changed. Stopping? We wouldn’t allow fizzy...

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A different society?

If food poverty is just a symptom of poverty and we measure most things in terms of Economic Growth – What would happen if we manage and measure things differently – with different metrics? What if we didn’t measure...

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What would a healthy Birmingham in 2025 look like?

The Greeks invented Utopian thinking whereby people would imagine what the world around you could look like. In the West Midlands, the Birmingham Food Group imagined what 2025 may look like and all the people are well fed. What...

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2025: 10 Years from now? What could it be like?

Table Conversation: May 2025 may seem an age away but where will we be in terms of Food Poverty in Birmingham? You can be bleak – but also be optimistic. If all citizens are well fed….. If all citizens...

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Does economic growth = reduced food poverty?

What will the food poverty situation be like in Birmingham in May 2025? Is Birmingham set for a golden decade – and will this have a big impact on food poverty in the city? One attendee was very positive about...

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In photos: #foodpoverty event in Birmingham

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