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

What’s interesting to you in this balance sheet for the food sector? Does it tell you that anything that you didn’t realise before?

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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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How the UK VAT system identifies vested interests costing us and the earth

Few realise the UK VAT system can precisely identify, at the point of sale, the major powerful global interests skewing our food system. Here’s how it is:

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Briefing Note: Risks and Resilience

Will Birmingham and other towns and cities in the UK have sufficient safe, nutritious food in the future?

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