If the drivers for emergency food aid (food banks and the like) are here to stay, what city-level infrastructure changes can Birmingham put in place to ensure all our citizens eat well? Slides for our workshop on 11th May 2015.

1. we aim for all our children to enjoy tasty, healthy meals
. . . and eat them in good company

2. welcome & introductions

3. 3 months — 3 hours — 3 weeks — 3 months
we aim
for all our children
to enjoy tasty, healthy
meals . . .
and eat them in good
company
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Where this workshop fits in the project

4. food insecurity — a city-level response?
Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical,
economic and social access to sufficient, safe and nutritious
food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an
active and healthy life.
UN-FAO World Food Summit 1996, 2012
we aim for all our children to
enjoy tasty, healthy
meals . . .
and eat them in good
company

5. Food security is universally applicable . . . is more than food
production . . . is underpinned by food systems
Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, economic and
social access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs
and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
UN-FAO World Food Summit 1996, 2012
Food security; i.e. stability over time for:
we aim for all our children to enjoy
tasty, healthy meals . . .
and eat them in good company
Dr John Ingram, ECI Food Systems Programme Leader, Oxford Martin School, 2015
food utilisation food access food availability
✦ affordability
✦ allocation
✦ preference
✦ production
✦ distribution
✦ exchange
✦ nutritional value
✦ social value
✦ food safety

6. Food security is universally applicable . . . is more than food
production . . . is underpinned by food systems.
Food security: i.e. stability over time for food utilisation, food access
and food availability.
Dr John Ingram, Oxford Martin School, 2015
Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, economic and
social access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs
and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
UN-FAO World Food Summit 1996, 2012
In emergency food systems individuals become receivers
of food — stripped of their agency and choice, a key
value in the contemporary food system in the UK.
Hannah Lambie-Mumford, SPERI Paper No 18, 2015

7. built infrastructures
social customs over time & locality
city scale: current spend £3bn/year
& (min) 2bn kcal per day
eating is social glue

8. food insecurity — a city-level response?
we aim for all our children to enjoy tasty, healthy meals
. . . and eat them in good company
In emergency food systems individuals become receivers
of food — stripped of their agency and choice, a key
value in the contemporary food system in the UK.
Hannah Lambie-Mumford, SPERI Paper No 18, 2015
TEXAS?
US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) cost $74.1bn in 2014.
46.5M Americans received on average $125.35 pcm

9. image of baby Ewan by :Salihan
and used with kind permission under a creative commons licence
food insecurity — a city-level response?
we aim for all our children to enjoy tasty, healthy meals
. . . and eat them in good company
food insecurity — a city-level response?

10. food insecurity — a city-level response?
AGENDA
Kate’s intro
drivers of food poverty now & in the future
what might the future look like?
what options do we have/will we have?
review
close
food insecurity — a city-level response?

11. food insecurity — a city-level response?
TASK ONE
List as many of the current drivers of emergency
food aid that you can . . .
Make a list! (i.e. don’t discuss whys & wherefores)
Use ONLY a green pen please — and write on
the table-cloths provided

12. And what might be the future drivers?
TASK ONE/cont
List possible future drivers . . .
Then group them in terms of where decision-
making happens
use Figure 1 to help you think about decision-making levels
Use ONLY a blue pen please — and write on the
table-cloths provided

13. What can we learn from other times &
other places about communities & food?
TASK TWO
Combine your collective experiences to share
what we can learn from other times & cultures
optional starter for ten from the here & now:
school dinners, work canteens, takeaways, soup kitchens, allotments,
Big Lunch, chilled meals, cafes & restaurants . . .
use Figure 2 to help you think about elements in our food systems
Capture as much as you can on post-its or A4

14. What could it be like ten years out . . .
TASK THREE
Imagine it’s May 2025. All our citizens are well fed . . .
What could be happening? Imagine . . . stories from
the future . . . social situations . . . scenarios
This task is about possibilities — lots of ’em! —
not about probabilities
Capture what you can on a new table-cloth . . .
Use ONLY a black pen please

15. What’s important?
TASK FOUR
If some of these possibilities happen, what city-level social and
connector infrastructures are needed? And what else in the city?
What do we stop doing?
What do we start doing?
What do we continue doing?
On an A3 sheet, list your ideas using a red pen under
STOP, START & CONTINUE

16. food insecurity — a city-level response?
we aim for all our children to enjoy tasty, healthy meals
. . . and eat them in good company
Kate’s three questions
. . . and thank you!