Events and Resources

 

Structural inequalities and food aid webinar co-hosted with the University of York​, September 2020

• Recording of the webinar is available here.  A briefing paper will be published soon.
   

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.