Part 13: Seeing CO2 shortages & Covid through the lens of the function map
This blogpost is about two events two events (CO2 and Covid) which greatly affected food supplies, but originated from outside the food system itself.
Read Covid-19 commentary: Four lessons about the preparedness of the UK food supply system
As we emerge from the latest Covid lockdown, here are four lessons to learn about making the UK food supply system better prepared for future shocks.
Read Future System Shocks: Building resilience through buffer contingency stocks?
The impact of Covid-19 lockdown on food supplies threw a harsh spotlight on our response and preparedness for what is potentially much worse to come.
Read Covid-19 commentary: Coming out of lockdown: An account of food supply system fragilities
Things could have been worse, much worse. Nonetheless, lockdowns across the world have exposed serious fragilities in the UK food supply system:
Read Covid-19 commentary: Re-think food and farming on this week’s Farming Today
This week’s Farming Today was outstanding. And I’m not just saying that because Barbara Bray was the first speaker.
Read Covid-19 commentary: Neither the food system nor the Government was prepared for the pandemic
Pre-Covid, few policy-makers and decision-makers had taken food security seriously. Even fewer were aware of the fragility of the food system, or how powerless local authorities would be to mitigate the effects of food insecurity for so many.
Read Covid-19 commentary: “The food network during this crisis has systematically failed literally millions of UK citizens”
The quotation above is from section 3.1 of our Submission in response to the EFRA Commons Select Committee Call for Evidence: Covid and food supply of 22nd May 2020, accepted on 5th June.
Read Covid 19 commentary: Trialling a universal basic income revisited
In mid-April, we put forward this argument to trial a Universal Basic Income.
Read Covid-19 commentary: Recovery and rates of change
In the last blogpost, I gave six practical examples of how useful ratios can be.
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