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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Why talk of grow-your-own (GYO) is irrelevant and unhelpful

In the last 24 hours, a TV news planner and a city councillor have been in touch about grow-your-own (GYO) as solutions to (with the TV guy) getting kids to eat more veg and (the councillor) to food security...

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Global risks to UK food supplies: Recommendations for local resilience

In our latest report Global Risks to UK Food Supplies, we spell out the major global risks that will have increasing impact on the UK’s dependency on the global larder. The collocation of these risks in one brief document makes...

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