Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Libraries Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Dan Saladino

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
150 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Food Programme
The Price of Food

A new nutrient profiling model will require another wave of product reformulation, it says, involving expensive efforts to reduce levels of sugar and salt.

The Food Programme
The Price of Food

The food industry is wrong on this one, says Anna Taylor of the charity, the Food Foundation.

The Food Programme
The Price of Food

Back at the Coney Hill Food Hub, food quality is also on the mind of its founder, Tanya Dando.

The Food Programme
The Price of Food

You've mentioned about chicken nuggets.

The Food Programme
The Price of Food

Do people find the processed food cheaper, easier to buy?

The Food Programme
The Price of Food

Anna Taylor of the Food Foundation.

The Food Programme
The Price of Food

So with forecasts of higher food prices, what do you want to see?

The Food Programme
The Price of Food

Meanwhile, on the food industry's wish list, along with its calls for a rethink on regulations, are demands for a change in the way it's viewed as an energy user.

The Food Programme
The Price of Food

Some businesses, such as chemical companies, are already recognised as energy-intensive industries.

The Food Programme
The Price of Food

For them to remain competitive, they receive targeted benefits and are exempt from a levy for so-called non-commodity costs, such as the renewables obligation.

The Food Programme
The Price of Food

The food industry should be treated the same way, says Andrew Opie of the BRC.

The Food Programme
The Price of Food

When we put all of these points to the Treasury, they told us... We know people are paying more because of the war in the Middle East.

The Food Programme
The Price of Food

Let's zoom out again from the UK's experience of food price inflation and think more globally.

The Food Programme
The Price of Food

Around the world, because of the war in the Middle East, along with other conflicts, President Trump's changes to trade rules and climate change, even more severe inflationary pressures are being felt.

The Food Programme
The Price of Food

Professor Jennifer Clapp, who we heard from earlier, has spent years looking at the deeper, less obvious systems and structures that contribute to higher prices.

The Food Programme
The Price of Food

In her latest book, Titans of Industrial Agriculture, How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector, she looks at the big four inputs into our food.

The Food Programme
The Price of Food

Machinery, seeds, pesticides, and part of the story we've already touched on, fertilisers.

The Food Programme
The Price of Food

This type of concentration of power in agricultural inputs can impact prices, argues Professor Clapp, particularly during periods of crisis and chaos in the food system, such as at the start of the war in Ukraine.

The Food Programme
The Price of Food

So what if anything can be done?

The Food Programme
The Price of Food

Well, prompted by the arrival of the Trump administration and changes to global trade, the impact of conflicts and climate change, Professor Clapp