Our Annual Report: The urgent challenge is for socio-political decision-makers . . .
Our latest Annual Report is an unsettling read. One of our reviewers described it as “frightening, stomach-churning”.
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David Middleton Sustainability Conference: 28th September 2021
This blogpost provides the inputs to the afternoon workshop I’m facilitating at the Sustainability Conference on 28th September. A more comprehensive version, with links to more info (including answers to the questions), is in this document the 21st century challenge:...
ReadCO2 shortages affects many functions across the food supply system
CO2 is used across the food supply system. So the current CO2 shortage inevitably has knock-on affects on our food supplies.
ReadNational Food Strategy: None of our criteria was met. Does this matter?
None of our five criteria was met (they are listed at the end of the post). This matters. This blogpost summarises why.
ReadCriterion #5: How much does the plan reflect a reliance on individual behaviour, and how much on measures to promote collective resilience?
In the risk table at the end of the previous blogpost in this series about the National Food Strategy, we made the point that people with diet-related morbidities are exhorted to change [their] behaviour, rather than given support and...
ReadCriterion 4: What contribution does this plan make to UK preparedness for future food shortages and scarcities?
The National Food Strategy didn’t consider UK preparedness for future food shortages and scarcities, as we ask in this fourth question about the National Food Strategy. Few do. But they should have done.
ReadCriterion 3: What are their recommendations to curb the power of corporates who make and promote products that damage human and planetary health?
None of the recommendations made will curb the power of these corporates, the third of our five criteria in assessing the National Food Strategy.
ReadCriterion 1: Do their recommendations support all UK households to have economic access to sufficient supplies of safe, nutritious food?
Regarding the first of our five criteria in assessing the National Food Strategy: The answer to this question is no.
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