Drugs & Rock & Roll?

This blogpost gives background info behind our latest video Drugs & Rock & Roll?  about drug foods, what they are and a bit about their history.

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The Dying of the Ice

This series of BBC podcasts  are astonishingly lovely, oddly reverent, deeply frightening.

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What does this food sector ‘balance sheet’ tell us?

This balance sheet tells us that the food sector is generates a huge deficit to society.

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Talk to the U3A

On 3rd July, I gave a talk to the Harborne and Edgbaston University of the Third Age (U3A). It was on global and local food security.

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Heavy metal contamination in Birmingham soils?

There’s rightly a lot of concern locally about air pollution in Birmingham. Few people, however, consider the health issues associated with eating food grown in polluted areas.

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Salford Meeting: Understanding food poverty & the transitional behaviour of vulnerable individuals

In October 2015, we published this report about a project we’d run: Food insecurity in Birmingham — a city level response? Because of this, Professor Morven McEachern invited me to be a panellist at a meeting in Salford yesterday...

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Update on our projects and other activities

Here’s the latest summary of the activities we’re doing:

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