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WL Meets: Anna Taylor – fixing our food, one plate at a time

Nick Easen talks to Anna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation, and one of the key voices for the nation’s new food strategy.

Activism Eating and drinking Health Inequality

News

Food insecure families reduce fruit intake by 60%

Cost-of-living Eating and drinking Health Inequality

News

Government covered up abuse on UK farms, new report reveals

People Social justice Ethical business Inequality

News

Government approach to food is ‘incoherent’

A group of MPs has published a damning review of the government’s lack of planning for the future of the UK’s food supply, and how it will manage higher costs, shocks to international trade and rising food poverty.

Coronavirus Cost-of-living Farming Health Inequality Politics

News

‘We weren’t humans’: Seasonal workers speak up

Being identified as numbers, threats of dismissal and high pressure are some of the conditions faced by seasonal workers on UK farms, according to new evidence.

Opinion

Practically Radical: The humble power in our food

There are countless movements through history that recognise and even centre the power in food; freedom and food seem somehow inseparable.

Opinion

For a truly fair food system, BPOC farmers need to flourish

Although many BPOC communities possess significant agricultural knowledge, inherited from ancestors overseas or in the vibrant 'playground' of British allotments, they find themselves cut off from farming in the UK by racialised structural barriers.