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An uncomfortable read: The City Council’s Food Law Enforcement Plan 2023-2024

Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) are unsung heroes. Their role is as enforcers of the UK’s high food safety, assurance and integrity standards — we depend on their expertise and vigilance to keep our food safe, and to make sure...

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Leadership Matters at Aston Business School: Speaking truth to power

It was an honour and a privilege to be one of three people on the panel for the first Leadership Matters event of the academic year at Aston Business School last Thursday. Its subject: Leadership through crisis.

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Update on food safety, assurance and integrity in Birmingham

It’s the job of local authority Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) to inspect, sample and organising the testing of food in the food premises in their area.

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The Game at the Warwick Crop Centre: Interim Report

NOTE: The request for comments, amendments et al is now closed. Many thanks to all those who responded! This is the link to the final edition of our Report on The Game at Warwick University: UK food security into...

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Game Players: The value of Warwick Crop Centre experts on future food security challenges

note: The major output from this scenarios exercise is this report: UK food security into the Anthropocene. ____ “Fantastic workshop! I’d recommend it not only to peers, but to everyone involved in the food system. Brilliant!” So said one of...

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The effects of high temperatures on the human body — and on livestock and crops too

I was lucky enough to spend time in Sante Fe. One day a colleague walked into the office, took one look at me and said, “Drink Kate!” I was wilting before her eyes.

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Food trade chokepoints: A perspective on UK food security

We’ve witnessed three chokepoint sets of events affecting food trade in the last couple of years:

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The Holocene has given way to the Anthropocene

The world has been a good place, climate-wise, for humans for the last 11,000 years, an epoch known as the Holocene. We’ve flourished.

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Turning the map: A perspective on UK food security

One way of seeing the UK in a different perspective is to turn the map anti-clockwise, as in the image above. (1) (2)

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Preparing for food shortages and scarcities

VIDEO: How fresh produce gets from a farm to you

Government policy options

About the today's food supply system & beyond

Podcast series: Making a meal of It

Shining a light on the UK food supply system

VIDEO: Drugs & Rock & Roll?

What food system organisations actually do

Articles

An uncomfortable read: The City Council’s Food Law Enforcement Plan 2023-2024

Leadership Matters at Aston Business School: Speaking truth to power

Update on food safety, assurance and integrity in Birmingham

The Game at the Warwick Crop Centre: Interim Report

Game Players: The value of Warwick Crop Centre experts on future food security challenges

The effects of high temperatures on the human body — and on livestock and crops too

Food trade chokepoints: A perspective on UK food security

The Holocene has given way to the Anthropocene

Turning the map: A perspective on UK food security

Videos & Podcasts

Rethink Climate: Pledges and progress

Making a Meal of It: Episode 4 with Emily Timmins of Severn Trent Water

Soylent Green. Eat up all of your greens like grandma

A function map of the food supply landscape

What does Tim Spector eat in a day?

10,000 Swamp Leaders: Birmingham Food Council — Kate Cooper & the potency of speaking out

Making a Meal of It: Episode 3 — Ed Salt of Delamere Dairy