Birmingham Food Council – Thought leadership in UK food security

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Our achievements 2014-2025

A highly immersive scenarios workshop

simply called The Game

A perilous innocence

We need adaption plans in operation asap

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After eleven hugely productive years, the Birmingham Food Council CIO has closed down owing to lack of funds. It’s most important recent work, The Game and all the scenarios research work behind it, will continue — more about that...

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The Third Agricultural Revolution: aka the Green Revolution

The Great Acceleration is a term used for the dramatic, continuous and roughly simultaneous surge across a large range of measures of human activity from the mid-20th century onwards. This acceleration involved a more than three-fold population surge in...

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The polycrisis of the last five years

Since the beginning of 2020, we have experienced multiple crises (aka a ‘polycrisis’) at a global scale.

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Climate: This is what’s ahead

We’re not prepared for 1.5°C degrees of warming above pre-industrial levels. (1) Yet the latest evidence indicates we’re facing the worst case scenario painted by the IPCC 6th Assessment Report. This timeline to 2100 is a summary of what...

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