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Big Issue's 100 Changemakers of 2026: Food and nutrition
Changemakers 2026

Big Issue's 100 Changemakers of 2026: Food and nutrition

Meet our 2026 Changemakers. Here Big Issue celebrates the community champions who are ensuring everyone gets something to eat in these trying times
Have dinner parties always been smug?
Society

Have dinner parties always been smug?

How marmalade spread across the world
Food

How marmalade spread across the world

Young people turning to social media over NHS for nutrition and diet advice: 'Social media is trumping doctors'
Health

Young people turning to social media over NHS for nutrition and diet advice: 'Social media is trumping doctors'

27 places where kids can eat for free or £1 over the Christmas holiday
Kids eat free

27 places where kids can eat for free or £1 over the Christmas holiday

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Inside the Millennium Seed Bank, our biological safety net in a changing world
Food

Inside the Millennium Seed Bank, our biological safety net in a changing world

We ran a food bank for a decade. This is the important reason why we stopped
Food

We ran a food bank for a decade. This is the important reason why we stopped

Millions of Brits can't afford to buy enough food. How do we feed a hungry nation?
Food

Millions of Brits can't afford to buy enough food. How do we feed a hungry nation?

Edible insects were once the future of food. Now it's crickets. Where did it go wrong?
Food

Edible insects were once the future of food. Now it's crickets. Where did it go wrong?

Sowing seeds of change: How Big Issue's Big Grow is cultivating community and resilience 
Food

Sowing seeds of change: How Big Issue's Big Grow is cultivating community and resilience 

George Lamb on how an Ibiza dance floor set him on a farming odyssey: 'We need resilience in our food system'
Food

George Lamb on how an Ibiza dance floor set him on a farming odyssey: 'We need resilience in our food system'

Modern fishing is going further, bigger and deeper than ever. But there's a big catch
Food

Modern fishing is going further, bigger and deeper than ever. But there's a big catch

'Vegans lost the battle, but they won the war': The truth about the anti-vegan backlash
Food

'Vegans lost the battle, but they won the war': The truth about the anti-vegan backlash

Foraging has helped make Finland the world's happiest country. What can we learn from the forest?
Food

Foraging has helped make Finland the world's happiest country. What can we learn from the forest?

'It's never been more urgent': Inside the garden project empowering communities to grow their own food
George Cornelius gives a tour of Loddington's school garden and wetland project
Food

'It's never been more urgent': Inside the garden project empowering communities to grow their own food

Supermarkets have a near monopoly on British food. Is it time for change?
In the aisles of a British supermarket.
Food

Supermarkets have a near monopoly on British food. Is it time for change?

The pigs of Orwell's Animal Farm led the revolution. Eighty years on, the UK's pigs are in trouble
Farming

The pigs of Orwell's Animal Farm led the revolution. Eighty years on, the UK's pigs are in trouble

Meet the chefs braving Russian drones and gunfire to feed troops on Ukraine's frontline
Ukraine war

Meet the chefs braving Russian drones and gunfire to feed troops on Ukraine's frontline

Children need more Welsh veg on their plates, Future Generations Commissioner insists
a boy in school uniform eating a carrot
Food

Children need more Welsh veg on their plates, Future Generations Commissioner insists

Meet the community champions working to end hunger and keep Britain fed: 'Hunger is solvable'
Food poverty

Meet the community champions working to end hunger and keep Britain fed: 'Hunger is solvable'

How bringing back Churchill's wartime canteen culture could help tackle food poverty
Food

How bringing back Churchill's wartime canteen culture could help tackle food poverty

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Big Issue's new Big Grow initiative set to transform communities through urban gardening
St Georges Church on the corner of Colegate and Magdalen Street in the city of Norwich, Norfolk captured on a dull and wet Sunday.
Big Grow

Big Issue's new Big Grow initiative set to transform communities through urban gardening

I'm a market gardener. Here's why you've probably never really tasted a tomato before
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I'm a market gardener. Here's why you've probably never really tasted a tomato before

Healthy foods 'more than twice as expensive' as unhealthy foods, report finds: 'We're in a bad place'
Photo shows several people standing with easels as part of The Food Foundation's Broken Plate exhibition
Food

Healthy foods 'more than twice as expensive' as unhealthy foods, report finds: 'We're in a bad place'

This is why your Christmas turkey costs more this year
Food

This is why your Christmas turkey costs more this year

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