Briefing Note: Risks and Resilience
Will Birmingham and other towns and cities in the UK have sufficient safe, nutritious food in the future?
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Articles
Why talk of grow-your-own (GYO) is irrelevant and unhelpful
In the last 24 hours, a TV news planner and a city councillor have been in touch about grow-your-own (GYO) as solutions to (with the TV guy) getting kids to eat more veg and (the councillor) to food security...
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Global risks to UK food supplies: Recommendations for local resilience
In our latest report Global Risks to UK Food Supplies, we spell out the major global risks that will have increasing impact on the UK’s dependency on the global larder. The collocation of these risks in one brief document makes...
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The Chief Medical Officer’s recommendations affect the food system
England’s CMO, Professor Dame Sally Davies, made fifteen recommendations in her 2018 Report: Health 2040 — Better Health Within Reach. Of these, five are directly concerned with the food we eat, and two others (about multi-morbidity) have implications for...
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Strange New World: Maps & infographics
This blogpost has the maps and infographics from our video Strange New World: Each is replicated below, along with info about where it comes from and/or what it means in relation to safe, nutritious food supplies for the world’s...
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The Game: Optimism, Reality and Context . . . dancing on the biscuit of opportunity
“How can you bear to spend so much time thinking about it all?” my friend Anne asked. “You have grandchildren.”
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Our Annual Report: Enlightening & disturbing, an urgent wake-up call
Here’s what some reviewers of our 2017-2018 Annual Report said: “Enlightening and disturbing: an urgent wake-up call for us to take these issues seriously, talk about them, raise awareness and influence policy-makers.”
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