Tag: Food Poverty

Salford Meeting: Understanding food poverty & the transitional behaviour of vulnerable individuals

In October 2015, we published this report about a project we’d run: Food insecurity in Birmingham — a city level response? Because of this, Professor Morven McEachern invited me to be a panellist at a meeting in Salford yesterday...

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Birmingham Food Council Spring Newsletter 2016

We’re about to begin our third year. Our Spring 2016 Newsletter reports on what we’ve achieved over the last couple of years…

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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.

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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…

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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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FSA Chief Executive Catherine Brown to address our first Annual Meeting

On 4th November, Catherine Brown returns to Birmingham to address our first Annual Meeting. Mark Rogers will be chairing. Registration is via eventbrite here. It’s timely that Catherine returns to the city. Food safety and integrity is of increasing concern...

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Tag: Food Poverty

Salford Meeting: Understanding food poverty & the transitional behaviour of vulnerable individuals

Why is there acute hunger in the UK and what is to be done about it?

Food aid: what we can learn from India?

Food insecurity in Birmingham — a city level response?

FSA Chief Executive Catherine Brown to address our first Annual Meeting

Community food programmes barely touch the lives of low income families in Toronto — and why should they?

Rise in food bank provision 2009-2013

The role of education in addressing #foodpoverty

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