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Criterion #4: What contribution does this plan make to UK preparedness for future food shortages and scarcities?

It’s not surprising that 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.

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Criterion 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.

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Criterion 2: What are their recommendations about ensuring food safety, assurance and integrity?

None.

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Criterion 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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National Food Strategy Plan: Does it meet our five criteria?

We have five criteria to assess the National Food Strategy Plan, published today, 15th July.

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About the food system in 2030-50: How smart were our predictions in 2017?

This is our final blogpost in a series of three, giving a retrospective look at the horizon scanning project we undertook in 2017. The time frame? 2030-50.

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About the food system in 2024-30: How smart were our predictions in 2017?

As part of our retrospective on our 2017 horizon scanning project, this is our second of three blogposts, about how project participants saw the key drivers, threats and opportunities for food system in 2024-30, then seven years away, now...

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About the food system in 2021-23: How smart were our predictions in 2017?

This is the first of three blogposts about our retrospective look at the horizon scanning project we undertook in 2017. This one is about how we saw the world three to five years hence; i.e. now and the next...

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A steady degradation of our food supply system

We can see something is wrong with the food system, and that things have been getting steadily worse over the last couple of decades or so, not least from the seriousness of rising cases of diet-related morbidities (cruelly exposed...

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UK preparedness for food shortages and scarcities

VIDEO: How fresh produce gets from a farm to you

The National Food Strategy: The Plan

About the today's food supply system & beyond

An apple a day

Shining a light on the UK food supply system

VIDEO: Drugs & Rock & Roll?

Articles

Criterion #4: What contribution does this plan make to UK preparedness for future food shortages and scarcities?

Criterion 3: What are their recommendations to curb the power of corporates who make and promote products that damage human and planetary health?

Criterion 2: What are their recommendations about ensuring food safety, assurance and integrity?

Criterion 1: Do their recommendations support all UK households to have economic access to sufficient supplies of safe, nutritious food?

National Food Strategy Plan: Does it meet our five criteria?

About the food system in 2030-50: How smart were our predictions in 2017?

About the food system in 2024-30: How smart were our predictions in 2017?

About the food system in 2021-23: How smart were our predictions in 2017?

A steady degradation of our food supply system

Videos

Dr Lauren Traczykowski Three Minute Lecture: Ethics in a crisis

Podcast interview with Kate Cooper

How fresh produce gets from a farm to you

Barbara Bray’s words: “Food systems are not set up for success” in this UN FAO video

TED-ed: A great 3’30” video on how networks keep us connected and how they remain “alive”

Henry Dimbleby’s speech to the Oxford Farming Conference

Starting the Birmingham Food Conversation

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