Table Talk

The right to food is recognised in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but in 2019 in the UK 5m people were living in food poverty. Many of those affected are children, and in this episode of the Table Talk podcast, we meet two extraordinary teenagers who are campaigning to make the food system fairer for everyone. Yumna Hussen and Saffron Stedall are both Young Food Ambassadors for the Food Foundation, campaigning for Children’s Right2Food. They believe that young people are not being heard when it comes to food poverty, and are working to implement real change. Their campaigning has taken them to COP26 and Downing Street. They have also met and worked alongside Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, Henry Dimbleby, and England footballer Marcus Rashford. As part of their work, they have produced The Children's Right2Food Charter, which sets out a roadmap for tackling food poverty. A big part of the charter is a call for the expansion of free school meals, which Yumna and Saffron point out