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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The Chief Medical Officer’s recommendations affect the food system

England’s CMO, Professor Dame Sally Davies, made fifteen recommendations in her 2018 Report: Health 2040 — Better Health Within Reach. Of these, five are directly concerned with the food we eat, and two others (about multi-morbidity) have implications for...

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Strange New World: Maps & infographics

This blogpost has the maps and infographics from our video Strange New World: Each is replicated below, along with info about where it comes from and/or what it means in relation to safe, nutritious food supplies for the world’s...

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The Game: Optimism, Reality and Context . . . dancing on the biscuit of opportunity

“How can you bear to spend so much time thinking about it all?” my friend Anne asked. “You have grandchildren.”

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