National Food Strategy #15: A UK Food Security Institute?

In our horizon scanning report, Back from the future, we recommended the Government set up a UK Food Security Institute.

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National Food Strategy #14: Risk categorisation

Given how complex the food supply network is and the sheer scale of what it takes to feed a population, even one as comparatively small as the 66+ million of us in the UK, how do categorise the threats and...

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National Food Strategy #13: A local level strategy?

Should a city such as Birmingham have a food strategy in its own? Would it make a difference to the well being and economy of the city?

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National Food Strategy #12: Local risk and resilience

How well will Birmingham and other UK cities cope when (and it appears all too likely to be when not if) there are shortages and scarcities of food? We suspect not well at all.

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National Food Strategy #11: City level responses to food insecurity

In 2015, we published Food insecurity in Birmingham — a city level response? This blogpost outlines what we said then, and gives our 2019 perspective on it all.

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National Food Strategy #10: The space between farm gate and food outlet

I’ve posted a series of images on our instagram account about the food supply chain between farm gate and food outlet, including the one of the port of Dover above. Such images are difficult to find. 

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National Food Strategy #9: Three scenarios and their risks to the supply chain

Look again at the simplified supply chain map in this blogpost, also replicated below, and imagine two scenarios:

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