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Food, poverty and ‘The Bread and Butter Thing’ – intercepting food surplus to avoid waste and feed people

Posted on 7 February 2022 by Geoff Tansey

It’s not a food bank nor a shop, The Bread and Butter Thing (TBBT) is an intermediary that intercepts food that would be surplus in today’s food system and dumped. TBBT turns it into bags of more affordable food for … Continue reading →

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Feeding Britain: our food problems and how to fix them

Posted on 10 May 2020 by Geoff Tansey

Tim Lang, professor of Food Policy at City University, London, spends 2 years writing Feeding Britain: our food problems and how to fix them and when it comes out it is in the midst of a global pandemic when feeding … Continue reading →

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Corporate charity undermines the human right to adequate #food and #nutrition

Posted on 29 May 2018 by Geoff Tansey

It’s nearly 4 years since I interviewed Prof Graham Riches about growing levels of hunger in rich countries in Europe and North America. Since then we’ve had the Hungry for Change report from the Fabian Commission on Food and Poverty, … Continue reading →

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From #diet for a small planet, to myths about world #hunger to living democracy and hope – a conversation with Frances Moore Lappé

Posted on 16 August 2016 by Geoff Tansey

It was quite fitting that Coventry University’s Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) invited Frances Moore Lappé to give a keynote speech at its 2nd birthday party in mid-July. Frances has had a huge impact with her work spanning … Continue reading →

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From India’s green to greed to evergreen revolution – M S Swaminathen discusses a lifetime’s work

Posted on 22 April 2016 by Geoff Tansey

In 2009, I met M S Swaminathan during a visit to India. A plant genetistist, who was at Cambridge at the same time as Watson and Crick, he is often known as the father of India’s green revolution. A towering … Continue reading →

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Addressing #hunger, #debt, #trade and #finance – a lifetime’s work for Susan George

Posted on 14 April 2016 by Geoff Tansey

Susan George has been an indefatigable campaigner for a fairer world all her life. Her first book ‘How the Other Half Dies – the real reasons for world hunger’ published in the mid 1970s was hugely influential on a whole … Continue reading →

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@_RajPatel on #sugar, capitalism and seven cheap things

Posted on 1 March 2016 by Geoff Tansey

Capitalism began with sugar argues Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for The World’s Food System. He was talking about a new book he’s working on at a meeting on Critical Agrarian Studies … Continue reading →

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Why we must change now by UK’s #FoodSecurity champion, Tim Benton

Posted on 8 April 2015 by Geoff Tansey

Tim Benton has got quite a title. He is the champion for the UK Global Food Security Programme. He is also a professor in population ecology at the University of Leeds. In January, he was one of the witnesses at … Continue reading →

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A Recipe for Inequality: Why our food system is leaving low-income households behind – Fabian Commission #foodandpoverty interim report

Posted on 17 March 2015 by Geoff Tansey

I’m on my way to Glasgow to chair a hearing of the Fabian Commision on Food and Poverty tonight. Yesterday, we released our interim report ‘A Recipe for Inequality: Why our food system is leaving low-income households behind’. You can … Continue reading →

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Please contribute to the Fabian Commission on Food and Poverty

Posted on 27 November 2014 by Geoff Tansey

When I first started to work on developing the journal Food Policy in the 1970s, there were no food banks in Britain. In fact, Britain was at its most equal since the early 1900s. Today food banks are spreading like … Continue reading →

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