2nd Dec 2022 - 06:00
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Food and Farming alliance Sustain will host its annual conference to bring together a cross sector line-up to discuss both short and long term policy solutions to the multiple issues in our food system.
The annual conference, which is free to attend, will take place online on Thursday 8th December from 2-5pm.
A spokesperson for Sustain said: “The current cost of living crisis, driven by war, energy shortages and inflation, comes on top of a pre-existing poverty crisis in the UK. Before the pandemic, 22% of people were already living in poverty.
“Millions more Britons are expected to experience extreme hardship this year. Food aid colleagues are reporting huge surges in demand. Accessing a healthy, sustainable diet is beyond the reach of too many.”
The speakers include:
- Professor Ha-Joon Chang, economist and author of ‘Edible Economics- A Hungry Economist Explains the World’
- Sheila Dillon, food journalist and presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme
- Daniel Zeichner, Labour MP for Cambridge and Shadow Minister for Food and Farming
- Jo Gideon, Conservative MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central and chair of the APPG on the National Food Strategy
- Munira Wilson, Lib Dem MP for Twickenham and Lib Dem spokesperson for Education
- Pete Wishart, SNP MP for Perth and North Perthshire and SNP spokesperson for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Shefalee Loth, senior researcher and writer - Nutrition and Food, Which?
- Shaun Spiers, executive director, Green Alliance
- Kat Jenner, director, Obesity Health Alliance
- Sabine Goodwin, co-ordinator, Independent Food Aid Network
- Pete Ritchie, Nourish Scotland