Covid-19 commentary: Millions do not have access to enough food
Getting enough food to every household is still the major challenge.
Read Covid-19 commentary: The shoppers’ perspective as lockdown continues
How safe is it for retail staff and their customers? A reported 75% fruit and veg price rise?
Read Covid-19 commentary: The food supply system into the second month of lockdown
Dairy farmers is serious financial trouble? Top quality truffles at a tenner a kilo? Where has all the flour gone?
Read Covid-19 commentary: The risks inherent in loosening regulations
The Government has introduced ‘temporary’ lifting of regulations affecting the food supply system,
Read Covid 19 commentary: Has the time come to trial a universal basic income?
From the start, Covid-19 was the opposite of a “great equaliser”. Not only are the poor disproportionately ill and dying, but they are going hungry, often choosing between paying rent or eating.
Read Covid-19 commentary: Government food packages should not contain products that carry standard-rate VAT (aka drug foods)
We were approached by a serving officer from the Ministry of Defence a couple of days ago. His job is to coordinate food supplies to the ‘vulnerable’ across the West Midlands, part of the effort described in The Grocer article here.
Read Covid-19 commentary: Will there be shortages? HMG need prepare for the worst (while hoping for the best)
The Government appears unprepared for food shortages and scarcities. They need to act. And fast. Preparedness is everything before a crisis hits.
Read Covid-19 commentary: A really useful mapping of mutual aid groups
If you don’t know where to go or what organisation to turn to, click on this map which will redirect you to the Mutual Aid UK Group website:
Read Covid-19 commentary: Lockdown impacts on labour and distribution of fresh produce
Never forget that UK imports 30% of its food from EU27, of which 76% are vegetables and 40% are seeds and nuts, a good proportion of which comes in over the winter months before the UK harvests kick in.
Read Covid-19 commentary: Do we really need crisps & cream cakes?
Do we really need crisps and cream cakes? Nope, and shopping behaviours over the last week or two have reflected this.
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