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)
Read 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.
Read Tomato-gate? We ain’t seen nothing yet!
A hotter world will disrupt our food supplies. What can we learn from tomato-gate?
Read Tropical storms, volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis
To add even more to the woes outlined the previous blogpost, geophysical mayhem is likely in times of rapid global heating.
Read Climate breakdown tipping points
Notice the proviso, providing no tipping points are breached above the words “business as usual” in the infographic
Read Eight ways in which the UK food supply system could be on a ‘war footing’
In this blogpost, we put forward eight ways in which the UK food supply system could be put on a war footing,
Read Should the UK food supply system be put on ‘war footing’? Yes, and here’s why.
Amol Rajan’s recent BBC podcast Rethink Climate: Pledges and progress is brilliant, if disturbing.
Read UK investment in horticulture technologies
At the best of times, the UK climate and terrain limits the range and quantity of fresh produce we can grow here. This Brexit means we’ve grown used to empty supermarket shelves, especially now midway through the ‘hungry months‘...
Read “We cannot find anything substantive and implementable in the White Paper”
“We cannot find anything substantive and implementable in the White Paper that will beneficially affect UK food security, the resilience of food supply chains, any particular sector within the food system or access to healthy nutritious food.”
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