All Food poverty articles – Page 7
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News
Soaring food prices causing ‘catastrophic’ rise in families unable to afford food
Food Foundation saw a 57% jump in families who said they had gone without food or could not access it compared to three months ago
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FareShare opens new south west centre to help meet surplus food demand
The warehouse has been operating in trial mode since November 2021
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Food distribution charities struggle to meet demand as cost of living crisis escalates
During the two-week period of the Easter school holidays, The Felix Project rescued and delivered 3,400 tonnes of surplus food
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FareShare kicks off campaign highlighting impact of cost of living crisis
FareShare found that nine out of 10 organisations it works with had seen their services affected as a result of the crisis
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Tesco to donate money to FareShare from sales of fruit & veg
The campaign will see cash from each sale donated to Tesco’s food redistribution charity partner from this week until 3 April
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Asda launches Just Essentials range in major pricing overhaul
Experts predict the new range will replace Asda’s Smart Price range
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FareShare reaches 250 million redistributed meals throughout Covid-19 pandemic
The network has redistributed 105,000 tones of surplus food to organisations in need across the UK from 23 March 2020
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Comment & Opinion
Hapless digital rollout of Healthy Start has failed the UK’s most vulnerable
Problems with digital rollouts have become par for the course over the pandemic
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Families humiliated at tills as IT chaos blights Healthy Start scheme
Campaigners are calling for urgent intervention from health secretary Sajid Javid
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Asda sends £1m aid package to Ukraine as refugee crisis escalates
Asda is also enabling customers to make cash donations in-store and via grocery home shopping
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Tesco launches relief operation to help refugees fleeing Ukraine
Tesco has used distribution centres in Budapest, Bratislava and Prague to co-ordinate its support
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Analysis & Features
The unfortunate rise of social supermarkets: saving surplus food for those in need
The UK’s cost of living crisis is pushing more and more Brits into food insecurity. Social supermarkets and other surplus food redistributors have sprung up to get good food into the hands of those in need
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Asda announces £269 average bonus for store staff amid row over pay
Asda stressed it was the only supermarket to offer hourly-paid store colleagues a bonus scheme once they have completed a three-month probationary period
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Comment & Opinion
Why we’re researching the impact of supermarkets on community wellbeing
The Covid crisis appeared to stimulate a more agile response from supermarkets to local needs, says Caroline Lee and Catherine Hammant, researchers at University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
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Comment & Opinion
Why loyalty and personalisation schemes will set supermarkets apart as inflation spirals
The retailers that will gain true competitive advantage will be those who create next-level, customer-first strategies, says Kieran South, SVP UK, IRI
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Analysis & Features
Budget food bloggers to watch as inflation bites in 2022
As inflation hits and supermarket prices climb, there’s a growing appetite for budget food blogs. But increasingly the content is more short-form and picture or video-led as platforms like Instagram Reels and TikTok boom
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Asda to double Smart Price coverage following Jack Monroe criticism
From 1 March Asda will stock its full Smart Price and Farm Stores ranges in all 581 of its food stores, as well as online
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Five million in food poverty as Tesco chairman warns of ‘worse to come’
Food Foundation data shows 8.8% of households are experiencing food insecurity
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Analysis & Features
Why aren’t the mults adopting Wrap’s waste guidance?
Eight months ago Wrap set new guidance to fight hunger and cut waste – but Sainsbury’s is so far alone in adopting it. What’s stopping the others?
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Comment & Opinion
Defra must seize the opportunity to transform our food system for good
Government would be wrong to put the National Food Strategy on the backburner, says George Heler, founder of Eatlean and MD at Joseph Heler Cheese