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…
Read Catherine Brown Chief Exec FSA at our Annual Meeting (Part 3)
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Read Catherine Brown Chief Exec FSA at our Annual Meeting (Part 2)
Catherine Brown Chief Exec FSA at Birmingham Food Council's Annual Meeting from podnosh Tonight Catherine Brown from the Food Standards Agency is speaking at our annual meeting, these are some notes from her presentation: What can/should we do? It is...
Read Catherine Brown Chief Exec FSA at our Annual Meeting (Part 1)
Catherine Brown Chief Exec FSA at Birmingham Food Council's Annual Meeting from podnosh Tonight Catherine Brown from the Food Standards Agency is speaking at our annual meeting, these are some notes from her presentation: The things she is covering are: What...
Read 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...
Read Food Poverty in Perspective : What was rationing like during WW2
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...
Read What can we learn from other times and places about community and food?
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 –...
Read ‘Why do people not get the right food? Cooking has become a spectator sport…’
Birmingham is a city of a million people from across the world and yet people don’t always get the right food they need. Yet, break into conversation at the Birmingham Food Group event and the reasons are plentiful from...
Read Chris Elliott giving a brief update on the national picture as a result of the Elliot Report
These are notes paraphrased from Prof Chris Elliott’s presentation at the Food Crime and Integrity Event Wednesday 3rd December 2014. Over in the last few months since the report I have gone in directions I didn’t anticipate and spoken...
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