Birmingham Food Council – We focus on the risks and threats to food supplies to Birmingham and beyond

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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Latitude: A perspective on UK food security

Birmingham is just below the 53rd parallel, marked by a red line in the map below, nearly two thirds of the way up from the Equator towards the North Pole.

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Tomato-gate? We ain’t seen nothing yet!

A hotter world will disrupt our food supplies. What can we learn from tomato-gate?

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Tropical storms, volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis

To add even more to the woes outlined the previous blogpost, geophysical mayhem is likely in times of rapid global heating.

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Climate breakdown tipping points

Notice the proviso, providing no tipping points are breached above the words “business as usual” in the infographic

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Eight ways in which the UK food supply system could be on a ‘war footing’

In this blogpost, we put forward eight ways in which the UK food supply system could be put on a war footing,

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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

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

Latitude: A perspective on UK food security

Tomato-gate? We ain’t seen nothing yet!

Tropical storms, volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis

Climate breakdown tipping points

Eight ways in which the UK food supply system could be on a ‘war footing’

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