How are the rising cost of living & increasing food prices affecting access to healthy, nutritious food?
We had this to say in our response to this question from the EFRA Commons Select Committee Call for Evidence on food security:
Read UK food price inflation: What policy interventions should the Government consider?
The EFRA Commons Select Committee asked a pertinent question in their Call for Evidence, to which we responded in full here.
Read The City Council-led food distribution during the pandemic was inevitably inadequate and inefficient
What story should we tell about emergency food distribution during the pandemic?
Read Imagine we consumed 70% less confectionery, crisps and fizzy drinks
The impact on our health, especially the long-terms benefits for our kids, would be massive.
Read Our response to the Birmingham food system strategy consultation draft
In this, Our Response to the City Council’s Consultation Draft of their proposed food system strategy, we strongly recommended
Read Where have all the agri-food policy experts gone?
Gone from Defra, every one? Not quite, it seems, but many had by the end of 2019.(1)
Read It’s not a cost of living crisis. It’s a shortage crisis.
Shortages of any resource mean price rises. The risks and threats to our food supplies are increasing. At an accelerating pace, too.
Read Will this Government White Paper on food strategy sink with barely a trace?
The Government White Paper on food security has been heavily criticised by many. Notably, on the day it was published, Lord Deben in the House of Lords was scathing, saying it is not actually a food strategy [ ] it...
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