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...
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...
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...
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...
We need to look at food poverty in perspective. Think about what we eat now in a fairly sedentary lifestyle. Now look at at what the adult rations were during the Second World war for an active adult. Weekly...
Views from group session at the Food Poverty event in Birmingham. There has always been emergency food aid through history. Food banks are just a modern, more formalised version of emergency food aid. In the past, needy and hungry...
Combining your collective experience share what we can learn from other times & cultures? Global Food Poverty is a global issue – places such as Japan are malnourished. Rice is healthy but now when it’s all you can afford –...
Birmingham Food Council event on food poverty Birchfield Community School, Birmingham 11th May 2015 The event is looking for different perspectives of the food supply system from attendees and asks a pretty big question – are drivers of emergency food...
….delegates are writing on the table cloths provided….. List as many of the current drivers of emergency food aid that you can. What could cause Food Poverty? The group on my table started by looking at 2 areas local...