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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A city is yours: “Only nine meals between mankind and anarchy?”

The Beast from the East last spring, and then the heat and drought of the summer damaged harvests. The media has talk of stockpiling food in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit.

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When is a food company not a food company?

A crowded room, too narrow for the number of people jostling for tea, coffee and the pastries on offer. A chance for people from the food industry to mingle with university researchers and find common ground. A chance for academics...

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Sarah Gurr joins our Panel of Experts

We’re delighted that Professor Sarah Gurr has joined our Panel of Experts. I first met her at the Inside Government meeting last April, where she gave a fascinating but chilling talk on the pathogens that view our crops as their...

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Our response to the draft London Food Strategy

We submitted Our response to the draft London Food Strategy on 5th July 2018. In this blogpost, we point you in the direction of why we said what we did.

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Giving civic leaders information they need . . . or switching them off?

Our Response to the draft London Food strategy is in the public domain. Its focus, though, is not for the general public specifically, but for socio-political decision makers, here being Sadiq Kahn and his colleagues at London City Hall.

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