The Food and Work network (FAWN) brings together academics, trade unionists and community campaigners seeking to understand the connections between structural food inequalities and working conditions in the UK.
The Food and Work Network, supported by the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network at Birkbeck, University of London, held a day of discussion at the Organiclea Workers’ Cooperative in Chingford in May. Rowan Lubbock reports on the political debates between degrowth and productivist socialism, focusing on tensions between industrial and agroecological food production models.
New analysis commissioned by the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission (FFCC) has found that the costs of Britain’s unhealthy food system amount to £268 billion every year – almost equivalent to the total annual UK healthcare spend.
FAWN Co-convenor Michael Calerbank reports on a Westimster Hall debate that brought food poverty and inqeuality to the heart of Government.