Eating Better

On June 10, we joined our member, Better Food Traders for their annual gathering for members and partners to come together to learn, share, network and look to the future. This year’s annual gathering was held at Penarth Pavilion in Wales and included a spotlight on Wales across policy, trade, entrepreneurship and campaigning. This event illustrated the importance of stepping outside the London bubble and exploring what food system transformation looks like across all four nations.

In February, Eating Better and Sustain launched the first-ever JEDI Leadership Programme, funded by Farming the Future, to redefine justice centred leadership in the food and farming sector.

Over 30 people from across the sustainable food and farming sector recently gathered in London for an honest conversation about what solidarity actually means in practice.

The Eating Better team has been in mainland Europe numerous times over the past few months. Read to hear what we've been up to and our takeaway messages.

The sustainable food, farming and land sector is working towards equity but is shaped by inequitable systems. As a broad movement, we share goals yet differ in priorities and approaches to change. Sustain and Eating Better have a responsibility to help the movement progress together. Introducing Disrupt to transform: Alternative approaches to movement building.

Welcome to our next round up from The Gathering Table. We explore how those working in food and farming can build brave spaces for honest conversations, challenge systemic inequality and practise meaningful allyship. Highlighting key learnings on power, privilege and the role of solidarity in shaping a fairer food system.

Welcome to the first in a series of blogs detailing highlights and key takeaways from The Gathering Table, written by Roshni Shah (Sustain) and Eating Better's Idman Abdurahaman.

Roshni Shah from Sustain and Idman Abdurahaman from Eating Better reflect on the content and learnings from our second workshop, and share resources to support further research.

Last month Sustain and Eating Better held the first of three workshops on ‘How to be an anti-racist organisation’ with the support of Social Justice Collective. The aim of the first workshop was to focus on self reflection and understanding as we know that a lack of confidence around language and terms is a barrier for people to engage with anti-racist practice.

A just, diverse, equitable and inclusive (JEDI) food system is something which all Eating Better members aspire to see. But until we put these principles into practice in our own organisations we will not see the food system change.