Blogposts – Birmingham Food Council

Leadership Matters at Aston Business School: Speaking truth to power

It was an honour and a privilege to be one of three people on the panel for the first Leadership Matters event of the academic year at Aston Business School last Thursday. Its subject: Leadership through crisis.

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Update on food safety, assurance and integrity in Birmingham

It’s the job of local authority Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) to inspect, sample and organising the testing of food in the food premises in their area.

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The Game at the Warwick Crop Centre: Interim Report

NOTE: The request for comments, amendments et al is now closed. Many thanks to all those who responded! This is the link to the final edition of our Report on The Game at Warwick University: UK food security into...

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Game Players: The value of Warwick Crop Centre experts on future food security challenges

note: The major output from this scenarios exercise is this report: UK food security into the Anthropocene. ____ “Fantastic workshop! I’d recommend it not only to peers, but to everyone involved in the food system. Brilliant!” So said one of...

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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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