Covid-19 commentary: Recovery and ratios . . . six examples
This blogpost gives more info about the six examples mentioned in the last one.
Read Covid-19 commentary: The Four Rs — Risk, Resilience, Recovery and . . . Ratios
Recovery: When to start? The answer is always now. So, where do we start?
Read Covid-19 commentary: Submission to the EFRA Commons Select Committee
We made this Submission to the EFRA Commons Select Committee Call for Evidence on Covid-19 and food supply on 1st May 2020.
Read Covid-19 commentary: 13 features of our pre-Covid food system . . .
Noticing and responding to the frailties and weaknesses of the pre-Covid UK food system as they’re being exposed through this crisis,
Read 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.
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