Showing posts with label Brent Right to Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brent Right to Food. Show all posts

Saturday 12 March 2022

REMINDER: Brent Right to Food Summit today 4pm - 7pm Newman Catholic College, Harlesden

 The summit is at Newman Cathloic College in Harlesden 4pm-7pm today. Tickers here:  

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brent-right-to-food-summit-tickets-268924559597


Programme:

Welcome: Alex Colás, Brent Rig ht to Food co-chair

 

16:00-17:00 - Food as Right: International and Legal Perspectives

(Facilitator: Rajesh Makwana)

Clive Baldwin, Human Rights Watch

Dee Woods, Civil Society and Indigenous People's Mechanism western Europe focal point for the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS )

 

17:00-18:00 - The Brent Food System

(Facilitator: Alex Colás )

Rajesh Makwana, Sufra NW London

Katie Pascoe, Let's Grow Brent 

Jake Thomas, JustEat Rider and IWGB union organiser

 

18:00-19:00 - Designing a Right to Food Strategy for Bent

(Facilitator: Dee Woods)

Kemi Akinola, CEO/MD of Be Enriched and Brixton People's Kitchen, and Labour & Co-operative Councillor in Wandsworth

Anne Kittappa, Brent Senior Policy Officer 

 

19:00 - Light Refreshments

Tuesday 8 March 2022

Tackling Food Poverty in Brent: Right to Food Meeting Saturday March 12th March - All Welcome to Share Ideas

 

A timely meeting as the Cost of Living and Health crises deepen:

We don’t think anyone in Brent should go hungry. 

 

What are the best ways to organise in Brent for food justice and security?

Brent Right to Food want to hear your ideas to develop a local food strategy.

We know there is a huge increase in demand for help from Food Banks and Brent Mutual Aid.

 

This will get worse as living costs rise and force families to choose between heating and eating.

 

WHAT IS FOOD POVERTY?

In 2005 the Department of Health defined it as “the inability to afford, or have access to, food to make up a healthy diet”.  The Food Foundation [1]  says  it is the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.”

Food poverty affects so many of us - including working parents, pensioners, people with disabilities, zero-hours contract workers and anyone unemployed.

 

You may be one of the 11 million people in food poverty in the UK. Brent Poverty Commission found that in 2020 up to 1 in 3 households (17% - 33%) in this Borough live below the poverty line and 22-43% of Brent’s children live in poverty. The pandemic has made this worse.

 

Food poverty has a major impact on our health – hunger, malnutrition and obesity can lead to diet-related illness far beyond childhood and impacts on our mental health. Studies have shown that poor diet is also linked to disability and earlier death. [2]

 

Key Factors in Food Poverty

·      Low income - people simply cannot afford to buy food

·      Variable quality of affordable food on offer

·      Lack of support for nutrition, budgeting and cooking skills

·      More support needed from suppliers and regulators.

 

Most of us acknowledge the problem – so now we need to tackle it together

 

Your ideas are welcome at the Brent Right to Food Summit

on 12th March at Newman College,  Harlesden Road NW10 3RN 4-7pm..

 BUSES 206, 226. 260, 266, 18 / Bus 187 from Harlesden station [ Overground and Bakerloo Line].

 


ALL WELCOME Free entry  - use the link for your ticket.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brent-right-to-food-summit-tickets-268924559597

Sat, 12 March 2022   16:00 – 19:00 GMT

Newman Catholic College
Harlesden Road  London NW10 3RN

 

An afternoon of discussion and debate on the Right to Food, and how it can be implemented in the London Borough of Brent.

 

With participation from:

·      Dee Woods, Granville Community Kitchen

·      Rajesh Makwana, Sufra NW London

·      Kemi Akinola, Be Enriched

 

·      Katie Pascoe, Let's Grow Brent

 

·      Clive Baldwin, Human Rights Watch

 

·      Anne Kittappa, Brent Senior Policy Officer

 

[1] [Food Insecurity Tracking | Food Foundation  says:

 Food insecurity (sometimes referred to as food poverty) is the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food. To assess the impact of household food insecurity across the UK, The Food Foundation has been commissioning a series of nationally representative surveys since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic. We track and report on people’s experiences of food insecurity particularly focusing on at risk groups such as families, BAME and ethnic groups, people with disabilities and children on Free School Meals.”

 

[ 2] Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 - The Lancet

Friday 2 July 2021

Brent Right to Food campaign launch on Saturday July 10th - Brent Beyond Food Banks: Strategies for Food Justice in NW London

The UK is witnessing a crisis of food poverty born out of the political choices and systemic failings created over the past four decades. In Brent alone, a third of households live below the poverty line, leading to a lack of access to fresh, healthy, affordable and culturally-appropriate food. Local activists are calling on Council Leader Muhammed Butt to declare Brent a Right to Food Borough, inspired by a national campaign by the MP for Liverpool and West Derby Ian Byrne. We want to work with community kitchens and gardens, mutual aid groups, trade unions, and anyone else interested in fixing our broken food system.  

Join us to discuss the best ways of organising for food justice in our Borough at the launch of the Brent Right to Food campaign on  Saturday 10 July 2021, 12:00-14:00 by registering here.  

 

Brent Beyond Food Banks: Strategies for Food Justice in NW London  

with:

 

         Dee Woods, co-founder Granville Community Kitchen  

         Fahim Dahya, logistics and facilities manager, Sufra NW London  

Ian Hodson, National President, Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union  

 

Outdoors in the Garden, The Granville. 140 Carlton Vale, London NW6 5HE (nearest public transport Kilburn Park and Queen’s Park; buses 6 and 316 to Neville Close stop).