The Food Foundation and FFCC have been working with Defra to run a groundbreaking programme of citizen engagement for the new Food Strategy.
A Citizens Advisory Council (CAC), made up of Food Foundation Ambassadors and Food Conversation participants, is helping to co-ordinate the programme and feed back to the Defra policy team. This work will ensure citizens voice is at the heart of this new strategy.
Watch the video below to hear some of their reflections at the first in-person CAC meeting earlier this year.
The CAC will help strengthen the work of Defra officials and their wider programme of stakeholder engagement, which includes the Food Strategy Advisory Board. Citizen involvement will test the comprehensiveness of the strategy, highlight gaps and focus on policy implementation issues and challenges.
David Njoku, Berkshire
Maria Chukwu-Nsofor, London
Paul Fowler, Cornwall
Claire Fraser, Caithness
Catherine McMinn, County Londonderry
Martin McCloy, County Antrim
Kerri Bridges, London
Ruth Amaeze, East Kent
Dave Salter, Cornwall
Hasan Nassar, West Yorkshire
Fayeth Jones, Denbighshire
Emmanuela Kumi, London
Zahistha Gafoor, London
Dominic Watters, Kent
Glory Omoaka, Glasgow
Penny Walters, Tyne and Wear
Karl, Cornwall
Jamie, Carmarthenshire
Kevin, Tyne and Wear
Citizen 20 (prefers to remain anonymous), Northumberland
