Healthy Returns: Opportunities for market-based solutions to childhood obesity

This report, produced for Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity and Big Society Capital, finds that food producers and retailers can play a vital role in tackling childhood obesity by addressing the unmet need of healthy, affordable food options for low income families.

Parliamentary briefing on the Agriculture Bill

2018 Peas Please progress report

Our first progress report, explaining what’s been achieved over the first year of Peas Please.  Packed full of case studies from our pledgers and insight into how we help everyone eat more veg.

Affordability of the UK’s Eatwell Guide

This report compares the cost of the Eatwell Guide with disposable income to estimate the proportion of income which would need to be allocated to food to afford the Eatwell Guide.

Food Foundation response to DEFRA’s Health and Harmony consultation

Food Foundation Response to DEFRA’s consultation on “Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment in a Green Brexit”

Fruit and Vegetable Alliance Submission to DEFRA’s Health and Harmony Consultation

Fruit and Vegetable Alliance Joint Response to “Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment in a Green Brexit”

Food Foundation submission to EFRA Select Committee Inquiry on Health and Harmony

Food Foundation response to the EFRA Select Committee’s Inquiry on DEFRA’s Consultation Paper “Health and Harmony”

Food Foundation response to Health Select Committee Inquiry on Childhood Obesity

Written Evidence Submitted by the Food Foundation to the Health and Social Care Committee’s Inquiry on Childhood Obesity

Response to Scottish Government Consultation

Food Foundation response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on their draft overweight and obesity plan: ‘A healthier future – action and ambitions on diet, activity and healthy weight’

Annual Report 2017

This is our second annual report, where we give an update on what we have achieved this year and our strategy moving forward.

Eating Better for Less

This report looks at ways in which we can incentivise fruit and veg consumption with price discounts at point of sale, drawing on examples from the USA.

Farming for 5-A-Day

This report asseses the impact of different Brexit scenarios on our ability to afford our 5-A Day.  It highlights the huge opportunity for government to create a new Agriculture Bill that supports British farmers and our heatlh.

International Learning Series

These briefings are the first of our ongoing international briefing series, a variety policy briefings to encourage international learning on food security & nutrition policy.

Food Environment Policy Briefing: Infographic

This infographic provides an overview of the Food Environment Policy Index at a glance.

Food Environment Policy Index: Policy Briefing

This briefing provides a summary of the results of the Food Environment Policy Index in England.

Food Environment Policy Index: Final Report

This report describes the methods and results for the Food Environment Policy Index in England.

Household Food Insecurity: the missing data

This policy briefing highlights the need for national household food insecurity measurement and looks at examples from Canada and the USA.

Veg Facts

Veg Facts is packed full of stats about veg consumption and production in the UK. It sets out the challenge for our Peas Please project which aims to tackle the supply side barriers to veg consumption.

Measuring household food insecurity in the UK and why we must do it

Food Foundation, Sustain and Oxford University policy briefing on the case for national measurement of household food insecurity.

The Sustainable Development Goals in the UK inquiry

Food Foundation’s written submission to the Environmental Audit Committee’s inquiry into the domestic implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Annual Report 2016

This is our first annual report, where we report on our activities in our first year. It currently includes some preliminary statistics which will be updated in September 2016 following the end of our financial year.

Submission to CAP

Submission to CAP consultation on food and drink advertising to children

Food Environment Policy Index: Evidence Paper

Update:  We have now validated the EPI Evidence Paper with Government officials and presented it to Academic Experts and Civil Society at an Expert Consultationbased on the INFORMAS methodology

The Food Foundation is in the process of developing the Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI). The Healthy Food Environment Policy Index aims to track the progress that governments have made towards good practice in improving food environments and nutrition. It identifies critical gaps in policies and infrastructure, provides a means of benchmarking against international best practice, and tracks progress over time.

#MakeRioCount: Nutrition for Growth Commitment

The Food Foundation, supported by World Cancer Research Fund International, Sustain, Church Action on Poverty and First Steps Nutrition worked, in collaboration, to define food and nutrition security priorities for the UK.  The result of this work is shown in the attached report, which proposes two commitments that the UK government should make, in addition to its international development commitments, at the forthcoming Rio Nutrition 4 Growth summit.  These commitments were presented to Parliamentarians, Government and NGO’s at an event in Parliament on the 13th April at which Ministers from the Department of Health and Department for International Development spoke, along with Olympian James Cracknell OBE.

Food and the EU Referendum

The Food Foundation co-convened an event in Parliamenton the 25th April on the implications of leaving or remaining in the European Union on UK food policy following the EU Referendum on the 23rd June.  This policy briefing summarises the debate between Prof Tim Lang, Prof Wyn Grant and Prof Fiona Smith, and Kerry McCarthy MP and Raymond Finch MEP as they discussed the food policy implications for both outcomes.  It also draws on two papers produced on the topic by the speakers and referenced at the end.  This paper attempts to address the key issues which voters will care about.

Too Poor to Eat

A review of new UN data by the Food Foundation and Oxford University shows that the number of people who are food insecure in the UK goes far beyond those using charitable food assistance such as foodbanks.   This policy briefing shows just how many people in the UK are struggling to put food on the table and calls on Government to urgently instate regular measurement of food insecurity, which was last measured over ten years ago.

Time to Count the Hungry

In January 2016 The Food Foundation co-hosted aworkshop with the Food Research Collaboration, Sustain, Oxfam, and the Sociology Department of Oxford University, to look at the issue of measuring household food insecurity in the UK.  The workshop was attended by relevant academics and civil society organisations and it reviewed existing methods of measurement used by other countries and the UN and current activity around the UK.

The result of that workshop was Time to Count the Hungry, a report that highlights the need and benefit to use a standard measure of household food insecurity and suggests two possible formats.  Without measurement and full understanding of the problem, effective action cannot be taken.

Force-Fed

The Food Foundation publishes Force Fed, which shows how difficult it is for typical British families to eat a healthy diet and calls for concerted government action to incentivise the food system to make healthy eating easier.