Latest Righttofood Podcast Episodes
U.S. Food Banks Supporting Migrant Justice
Rights Not Charity - May 10, 2022 12:25 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIn today's episode, we'll talk about why our food justice movement including food banks should work in solidarity with the movement for migrant justice. I recently saw a meme that showed a picture of a man holding a sign that read, "Do you know what an accent is? It's a sign of bravery." Truly, ...
Is Food Charity Political? If so, how do we organize?
Rights Not Charity - March 10, 2022 14:20 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsOur guest today is Joshua Lohnes, food policy research director at the West Virginia University Center for Resilient Communities. He's a scholar activist who writes and organizes alongside members of the West Virginia Food For All coalition. Josh will help us shed light on whether and how food c...
Rooting the right to food in racial justice
Rights Not Charity - February 03, 2022 17:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsMulticulturalism is central to Canada's national identity. It is how Canadians like to distinguish themselves on the international stage. But this mythology obscures the realities of Black, Indigenous and people of color otherwise known as BIPOC who experienced ongoing colonialism and racism. Th...
How Non-Profits Can Support Food Justice
Rights Not Charity - January 13, 2022 17:42 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsGiven the urgency of responding to climate change, food movements have featured prominently in urban planning, food policy, and sustainability initiatives, over the past decade. However, mainstream frameworks, such as the Local Food Movement, have typically catered to privilege, namely, a white ...
Hunger, Historical Policies & Structural Racism in the U.S.
Rights Not Charity - December 16, 2021 19:01 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe food system does not serve everyone equally. Hunger is rooted in systems of inequity, including systemic and structural racism. Structural racism is at the root of hunger and the health disparities we see in the US today. In this episode, we'll talk to Suzanne Babb about the impacts of histo...
Why This Pediatricians Wants Us to Reenvision Poverty & Food
Rights Not Charity - November 11, 2021 17:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsLack of food or too much of the wrong kind of food can create a wealth of physical and mental health problems. Making matters even worse, society often blames individuals for making the wrong choices. But data shows us that diet related ill health goes hand in hand with inequality and poverty an...
The Connection Between Hunger and Health
Rights Not Charity - October 14, 2021 04:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIn this episode, we’ll explore the connection between hunger and health. Welcome to Rights Not Charity. This podcast series is about a big idea, ensuring everyone has enough food, not as a charitable gift, but as a fundamental human right. My name is Christina Wong and I'm the director of Public...
UK - This is Rubbish - The Plenty to Share Campaign
Rights Not Charity - October 07, 2021 04:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsInterview Summary So let's get started. As a seasoned food waste campaigner, what led you to this innovative, illustrated explainer video approach? What's important about this kind of visual messaging? What are you hoping to achieve by it? Well, we wanted to start telling a different story a...
What does Right to Food Mean?
Rights Not Charity - September 30, 2021 04:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsHave you ever wondered why there are so many hungry people in wealthy nations like the US, Canada and the UK long before and especially during COVID -19? This is happening even though the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights and the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rig...
What is Hunger in Canada?
Rights Not Charity - September 23, 2021 04:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsCanada is among the world’s 10 wealthiest countries. Yet food insecurity has been rising. Around one in eight Canadian households experienced food insecurity in 2018. A figure that has likely grown, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. Canada reported 4.4 million Canadians living in food inse...
What is Hunger in the United Kingdom?
Rights Not Charity - September 16, 2021 04:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe United Kingdom has seen rising levels of hunger over the past 10 years. And despite being in the top five wealthiest countries in the world, demand for food aid was rising even before 2020, but it’s estimated that 15% of families with children have struggled to afford a decent diet since the...
What is Hunger in the United States?
Rights Not Charity - September 09, 2021 04:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDid you know that 40 million people in the United States experience hunger. This is startling given the fact that the us is one of the richest countries in the world. Perhaps you’ve participated in a hunger drive at your school, have volunteered at a food pantry, or even experienced hunger yours...
Why Mainers should vote YES on the Right to Food
Rights Not Charity - August 31, 2021 12:53 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsAmerica was founded on human rights. The right to speak out, to organize, to worship, but what we still haven't secured is the right to food. Although a signatory, the United States has famously declined to ratify the international covenant on economic, social, and cultural rights, which recogni...
Rights not Charity
Rights Not Charity - May 10, 2021 16:33 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome to Rights Not Charity. This podcast series is about a big idea—ensuring everyone has enough food; not as a charitable gift, but as a fundamental human right. We are the Global Solidarity Alliance for Food, Health, and Social Justice. We’re a growing collective of foodbank workers, rese...
Right2Food: The Trailer
Right2Food - March 25, 2020 17:58 - 24 minutesAn introduction to some of the Food Foundation ambassadors on the series ahead For information regarding your data privacy, visit Acast.com/privacy
Trailer
Right2Food - March 25, 2020 15:24 - 4 minutesA trailer for the upcoming podcast Right2Food with the young food ambassadors for The Food Foundation, an independent think tank to help tackle the growing challenges facing the UK’s food. We hear much more from them over this podcast series, including stories from young people dealing with the ...
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