WE ARE EXCITED TO INTRODUCE OUR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH The Food Foundation
The Food Foundation is a charity which works to change food policy and business practice to ensure everyone, across the UK nations, can afford and access a healthy and sustainable diet.
This fantastic organisation works by building and synthesising strong evidence, shaping powerful coalitions, harnessing citizens’ voices, and driving progress with impactful communications. Their work is predominantly about driving policy and business change. The Food Foundation exemplifies collaboration by partnering with researchers, campaigners, community bodies, industry, government, citizens, and investors to galvanize the UK’s diverse agents of change.
The organisation was founded in 2014 as an independent policy think tank to challenge the current food system and how it was impacting the public’s health and the affordability of healthy food, particularly focused on lower income families.
We asked The Food Foundation…
Why are you a Strategic Partner of Future Food Movement?
“We wanted to be part of the Future Food Movement because it aligns with our work helping food businesses to combat climate change. It’s crucial that business leaders and employees have the knowledge and skills on climate issues to be able to drive effective change within their companies.
A core aspect of the way we work is through collaboration so we’re looking forward to seeing how being part of this new community can bring new opportunities to drive the change we want to see.”
WHat are your key climate and/or health commitments?
“Currently we are calling on policymakers to:
- Make healthy and sustainable food affordable
- Stop the junk food escalation
- Invest in children’s diets
- Make it easier to eat sustainably
- Unleash the full potential of the food system
You can find more detail in our election 2024 manifesto – Nourishing the Nation.
We would like to see businesses:
- Setting targets and reporting on healthy & sustainable food sales, including fruit & vegetables and plant-based proteins, and away from food that is high in fats, salt and sugar.
- Encouraging healthy & sustainable diets by having clear policies that prioritise marketing, pricing and communication of healthy food.
- Setting targets and reporting on scope 1 & 2 and scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions.
- Setting targets and reporting on their links to biodiversity loss through land use conversion and deforestation
We assess the progress being made by major UK-operating businesses within the food retail, foodservice and restaurant chain sectors across key themes relating to the transition to a healthy and sustainable food system (the above list, and more).
You find see our other business asks and find out more about our work with businesses by checking out our Plating Up Progress project and 2023 State of the Nation’s Food Industry report.”
Finally, what is IT like to work at The Food Foundation?
“The Food Foundation is all about finding new and inventive ideas to catalyse change. All our work is evidence based and our trustworthiness is core to our reputation, as well as our relationships with businesses and policymakers.
If you’d like to connect or find out more about our work with food businesses, you can contact chloe.mackean@foodfoundation.org.uk.”
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Business Leader Dinner
We’re excited to announce that Anna Taylor, Executive Director at The Food Foundation is a speaker at our Business Leader Dinner!
Taking place on 30th April 2024 6:00 pm – 10:00pm, the evening is invitation only for Future Food Movement senior industry leaders and has been carefully curated to laser in on the biggest industry challenge of our generation: Putting Healthy Sustainable Diets at the Centre of the Food System Transformation. Details can be found here.
