From food pantries to food resilience
By Kemi Akinola, CEO/Managing Director of Be Enriched and Brixton People's Kitchen @BeeKemiA What is dignity? Dignity is the right of a...
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Emma Greenwood
Dec 17, 2021
Cornwall's 'Worrying About Money?' leaflet and building momentum for change
Emma Greenwood of The Trussell Trust writes about local partnership working in Cornwall and embedding a cash first approach to food...
IFAN Blog
Nov 12, 2021
Good food is good medicine
Why poverty, food insecurity and ‘surplus food’ or ‘food waste’ are words that should not appear in the same sentence. Reflections on our...
Sabine Goodwin
Oct 5, 2021
IFAN's letter to the Prime Minister
IFAN's letter to the Prime Minister on the £20 cut to Universal Credit. IFAN urgently calls on the Government to reinstate £20 to...
Andrew Hurrell
Sep 20, 2021
The Journey Continues
By Andrew Hurrell of Ardwick and Longsight Food Bank, Manchester In March 2021, reflecting on our food bank's journey through the...
IFAN Blog
Sep 14, 2021
It’s only an extra £20 a week, what’s all the fuss about?
As the cut to Universal Credit is debated in the House of Commons and food and drink prices are reported to have soared, Cat explains the...
Sabine Goodwin
Jul 14, 2021
IFAN Statement on Henry Dimbleby’s National Food Strategy
It’s invaluable that Henry Dimbleby’s National Food Strategy recognises that so many people are unable to eat well due to lack of income...
Hannah Mackintosh
Jun 29, 2021
Calling on the Scottish Government to end reliance on food banks
Hannah Mackintosh, Food Workers for Food Justice, writes for IFAN In a letter to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, workers and volunteers...
Gareth Evans
Jun 27, 2021
Moving away from voucher and food parcels
Moving away from voucher and food parcels to ‘cash first’ disbursement for hardship payments. Gareth Evans explains the value of his Cash...
IFAN Blog
Jun 10, 2021
Disentangling the food surplus and food poverty problems
IFAN has joined the Plenty To Share campaign. Our Coordinator, Sabine Goodwin, recently spoke at a webinar focussed on ending both food...
Martin Bowman
May 24, 2021
Beyond Surplus Food Redistribution
Martin Bowman issues a rallying call to join the Plenty to Share movement for systemic solutions to food waste and poverty. Join their...
Sabine Goodwin
Mar 28, 2021
Food insecurity data finally published
Alongside Emma Lewell-Buck MP, Dr Rachel Loopstra, the Food Foundation, Church Action on Poverty, Sustain, the Trussell Trust and other...
Andrew Hurrell
Mar 8, 2021
Will things get worse before they get better?
Andrew Hurrell reflects on the relentless provision of emergency food parcels with no end in sight. Ardwick and Longsight foodbank was a...
Ines Silva and Dr Rachel H Tribe
Feb 15, 2021
Food Aid Provision and Policy Change
Why emergency food providers should be using their voice to influence change and where to start. By Ines Silva and Dr Rachel H Tribe,...
Dee Woods
Jan 2, 2021
The new Covid-19 variant and impossible choices for food aid providers
Dee Woods, Co-Founder of the Granville Community Kitchen, on the reality of providing food aid in the midst of surging Covid-19 cases...
Sabine Goodwin
Dec 14, 2020
Now, more than ever before, we need to be planning an exit strategy from food banking
IFAN's Coordinator Sabine Goodwin spoke at the AGM of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Ending the Need for Food Banks earlier today...
Dr Lopamudra Patnaik Saxena
Nov 30, 2020
Redistribution of food surplus, social supermarkets, and food insecurity
Dr Lopamudra Patnaik Saxena, Research Fellow, Centre for Agroecology, Water & Resilience, Coventry University and Co-Author of The...
Dr Andrew Forsey & Sabine Goodwin
Nov 6, 2020
Reflections on a joint briefing from the Independent Food Aid Network and Feeding Britain
Hunger and the need for food banks between March and September 2020 By Andrew Forsey, Feeding Britain and Sabine Goodwin, Independent...
Dr Chelsea Marshall
Oct 19, 2020
Food banks in Scotland call for cash first approaches in the face of uncertain future
As the end of the furlough scheme approaches, winter fuel costs begin to rise and a ‘No Deal Brexit’ looks more certain than ever, food...
Professor Graham Riches
Sep 22, 2020
Guest Blog: Canada must eliminate food banks and provide a basic income after COVID-19
Graham Riches: Emeritus Professor of Social Work, University of British Columbia Introduction: The Covid-19 Canadian food bank story may...
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