Events

IFAN AGM including workshops on Community Food Retail, Exit Strategies from Charitable Food Aid and

the Right to Food - London, September 2019

Taking Action To Reduce Rural Food Poverty alongside Sustain's Food Power and

the Bristol Poverty Institute - Bristol, June, 2019

Community Food Retail Workshop - Coventry, May 2019

Rethinking Food Aid - Chester, September 2018

The Value of Stories & AGM - Stockport, February 2018

An audience with Andy Fisher, author of Big Hunger - London, November 2017

Share, Learn & Connect - Southampton, February 2017

Resilience workshop - Manchester, February 2017

 

Independent Food Aid Network AGM, London September 2019

 

Community Food Retail

Dr Lopa Saxena, co-author of The Emergence of Social Supermarkets in Britain and IFAN trustee Robin Burgess of Northampton's Hope Centre looked at the variety of models and good practice within a rapidly growing community food retail sector providing an alternative to food bank provision. Read more here.

 

Exit Strategies from Charitable Food Aid

This session was led by IFAN trustee, and author of Hunger Pains: Life inside Foodbank Britain, Dr Kayleigh Garthwaite, with Matthew Van Duyvenbode, Director of Strategy and Impact at the Trussell Trust. We heard about the various strategies that have been emerging to reduce reliance on charitable food aid and about the Trussell Trust's development of a long-term plan to end the need for food banks. Read more here.

 

Tackling Rural Poverty Workshop, Bristol, June 2019

Read the briefing here.

 

Right to Food Webinar Series, Summer 2019

Undermining the Right to Food: The Rise of Food Charity in North America and Europe. Listen here.

The Right to Food and Emerging Strategies of Resistance. Listen here.

Living with Food Poverty & Hunger while Advocating for the RtF in North America and Europe. Listen here.

The Interconnection between the Right to Food and Food Sovereignty in North America and Europe. Listen here.

Charitable food provision as an emergency response: sharing evidence from Canada, the USA and the UK, London, November 2019

This was a meeting hosted by the UK Food Poverty Alliance and jointly organised by the Independent Food Aid Network. Read a summary of the discussion here.

Rethinking Food Aid Conference, Chester, September 2018

Read the conference materials here.