Category: Food and the city economy

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‘...

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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?

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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

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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.

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What does the Government’s food strategy set out to do?

In this blogpost about the Government White Paper, we analyse what it sets out to do. In so doing, we’ve also identified what it doesn’t cover.

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Part 11: Two examples of using the function map to ‘see’ the food supply landscape differently

As stated in the previous blogpost, it’s useful to think of the function of the millions of organisations and people operating across the food supply landscape.

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Part 3: Economic access to food

The Rome Declaration defines access to food in terms of physical access, social access and economic access.

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Criterion 3: What are their recommendations to curb the power of corporates who make and promote products that damage human and planetary health?

None of the recommendations made will curb the power of these corporates, the third of our five criteria in assessing the National Food Strategy.

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A steady degradation of our food supply system

We can see something is wrong with the food system, and that things have been getting steadily worse over the last couple of decades or so, not least from the seriousness of rising cases of diet-related morbidities (cruelly exposed...

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A series of short papers: Shining a light on the UK food supply system

We’ve begun a series of short papers about the UK food supply system, and will list them below as and when published:

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