We're not just working with primary school pupils. Check out BeanMeals - the video game!! This fab student collaboration is building skills in games design in Leicestershire AND educating about pulse power!

Our team started the week with a presentation by researcher Lucille Marty of INRAE on a school-based study in Dijon, France to introduce more vegetarian meals. Fascinating to note the differences in £/€ investment in school meals : Read more at inrae.fr/en/dossiers/ch…

Our team mate Natasha Bayes at #BFDG2024 presenting her BeanMeals work in 6 Leicestershire schools #beans

🚨 Tomorrow at 4pm GMT🚨

Prof. Roberta Sonnino of University of Surrey will be sharing her research on the 'urban food agenda' - at our #FoodThinkers webinar. Join us!

city.ac.uk/news-and-event…

Last call for our 'worm webinar' tomorrow...

ICYMI: Former Education Secretary Justine Greening spoke to BBC Radio 4 Today on Friday about the state of school food:

'even if you have the right policy, you need to have the right investment, we’re losing the sense of school meals as a ways to teach children about nutrition'

Our programme manager Roger Sykes recently wrote an article for Sustainable Food Places on how we're using beans as a tool for transformation. You can read it here:
tinyurl.com/3bnuc5r9

.Prof Charlotte Hardman has been working with #TUKFS colleague Dr Clare Pettinger of Food Systems Equality to better understand #FoodSystems co-production. Access their toolkit for insights from 11 examples of co-created projects plymouth.ac.uk/research/syner…

From school caterers to teaching staff, local authority teams and our brilliant BeanMeals team, a huge amount of women are contributing to our understanding of how to get more UK grown beans onto plates. Thank you to you all! #IWD2024 #InternationalWomensDay2024

Want to know more about the super Warwick Crop Centre beans we're using in BeanMeals? Read this case study from UK Research and Innovation which shares the bean backstory
tinyurl.com/mvd5zrcv (Image: University of Warwick )

Read the #GoodFoodLocal London #foodpolicy #foodsystems report here ⬇️

Great to see progress on food governance and strategy. There are now 12 London boroughs in the Sustainable Food Places network, 23 councils are working on food partnerships, nine have a food strategy. #foodpolicy #foodsystems

Join us for the 2024 Association for the Study of Obesity UK Scotland hybrid conference, 'Tackling inequalities of living with obesity in a rural environment', with Prof Prof. Sarah-Anne Munoz (NHS Scotland) & Dr Kimberley Norman (@MonashUni).

📅 Wed, March 27th
⏲️2-3.30pm

See details below:
aso.org.uk/event/aso-scot…

Join Ulrike Ehgartner, Prof Sarah Bridle and other experts in a conversation about responsible food production and consumption.
7th March, 19:00-20:00, Online
eventbrite.co.uk/e/food-product…
University of York #Sustainability

Our latest paper out today in The BMJ with editorial, we report on the observational meta-analytic evidence associating ultra-processed foods with a range of health outcomes.

bmj.com/content/384/bm…

Beanz means gamez. So pleased to be working with the Gatewaycollege_NEXTGEN who are using our project as a learning tool for students of digital gaming.

How do you get a community to try unfamiliar foods? Our bean ally Good Food For All Full of Beans campaign has published a blog by our engagement officer Lisa Didier on what we learned from our work in Leicestershire goodfoodforall.co.uk/creating-a-buz…

Looking forward to seeing you on Sat24thFeb at #scottishfestivalofrealbread edinburghbakerstrust.org.uk/scottish-bread… Bowhouse Winners announced #scottishbreadchampionship + much to see & do so do join us @realbread Andrew Whitley Slow Food Scotland Nourish Scotland Scottish Parliament

The term resilience means the capacity to bounce back from shock. But is it a return to normality or something new?

Join us on Thurs 22 Feb when Tim Lang Professor Tim Lang will be talking about the need for 'civil' food resilience at our next #FoodThinkers .

city.ac.uk/news-and-event…

What does it mean to work on the food system?

Community #FoodPartnership Officer and IFSTAL alumni, Sara Azeem, tells us about what inspired her to work in the #foodsystem and her hopes for tackling big issues through #foodsovereignty .

tinyurl.com/nhtuu6xc