Planet Pod and the Great Food Debate

July 6, 2018

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Our host Amanda Carpenter (Achill Management) talks about sustainable food and food production with our expert guests: Paul Newnham, head of the SDG 2 Advocacy Hub which coordinates global campaigning and advocacy of the Global Goal 2 – to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture; Helen Munday, Chief Scientific Officer at the Food And Drink Federation where she is accountable for sustainability and the diverse food safety and science policy briefs; Julia Porter, National Supply Chain Manager at Bio Bean – the world’s first company to recycle coffee waste into advanced biofuels and – soon – biochemicals.

References highlighted by our guests include:

SDG2 Advocacy Hub and the Chef’s Manifesto

FDF Ambition 2025

Refettorio Felix at St Cuthbert’s

Paul Newnham

Paul currently heads up the SDG 2 Advocacy hub. The SDG2 Advocacy Hub coordinates global campaigning and advocacy to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2: To end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture by 2030 incubated in the UN World Food Programme. The Hub brings together NGOs, advocacy groups, civil society, the private sector and UN agencies to share expertise, ideas, and to collaborate on campaigns so that our overall impact as a community of influencers is increased. Paul has over 20 years’ experience in National and Global roles with a focus on Campaigning, Youth Mobilisation, Advocacy, Marketing and Communication. A dynamic, strategic innovator who brings teams together to achieve planned objectives, by providing inspirational and evocative leadership. An effective communicator able to enthuse and motivate others, achieving goals beyond expectation. Extensively travelled and sensitive to cultural diversity and differences, regardless of the environment in which he is working, Paul is able to bring out special skills in others, drawing on his own extensive skills and experience. Paul is passionate about bringing new voices into the Global Goals conversation particularly around Zero Hunger. To this end, the SDG2 Advocacy Hub has worked with a community of 130+ chefs from 36 countries to create a Chefs’ Manifesto. A document written by chefs, for chefs, the Chefs’ Manifesto is a thematic framework that outlines how chefs can contribute to the SDGs through simple, practical actions. As this project develops, the Hub will act as a “one-stop shop” to help chefs take action and inspire others; showcase their work; share their ideas and best practice; and point to useful resources and initiatives

Helen Munday

Helen re-joined the Food and Drink Federation in 2016 as Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) having worked for the trade association as Director of Food Safety and Science earlier in her career. In her role as CSO, Helen is accountable for sustainability and the diverse food safety and science policy briefs at FDF, and as a Registered Nutritionist also contributes to health and wellbeing policy. Helen has a wealth of experience of the food and drink industry, having previously held senior global roles in companies such as Mars and Coca-Cola. Helen has also worked as Lead Technologist in AgriFood at Innovate UK. Helen splits her time between rural Leicestershire and London and when not consumed by all things food and drink, Helen is a keen cyclist, general sports fanatic, and is busy attempting to train her young Field Spaniel Monty!

Julia Porter

Julia is the National Supply Chain Manager at bio-bean, the world’s first company to recycle coffee waste into advanced biofuels and soon biochemicals. Julia is responsible for the arrival of all waste coffee into bio-bean’s Cambridgeshire factory by liaising with waste coffee producing businesses, like Caffe Nero and Costa, and waste management companies who operate all waste coffee collections on bio-bean’s behalf. bio-bean’s ambition is to tackle global concerns related to responsible waste collection and disposal, whilst extracting the greatest value possible from coffee waste.

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