Category: Food and the city economy

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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How [not] to talk about [ultra-high] processed food

Bee Wilson took the Association of UK Dietitians (aka the BDA) to task last week on twitter about their ‘position statement’ on processed foods.

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Food security & resilience: What role should the WMCA play?

This blogpost is about West Midlands Combined Authority-level decision-making and its relevance to food security and resilience matters.

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How fresh produce gets from a farm to you

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Barbara Bray’s words: “Food systems are not set up for success” in this UN FAO video

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Food System Transformation #8: The geometry of the box [we need to think outside of]

Biologist Jack Cohen, one of the New Optimists scientists, used to say that you cannot ‘think outside of the box’ unless you know the geometry of it very well indeed.

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Food System Transformation #6: The fresh produce supply chain

A “transformed” food system means a radical restructure of what happens between farm gate and retail outlet. Why? It’s where most of the activity and nearly all of the profits lie.

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Food System Transformation #4: A new corporate order?

Here’s a thought experiment: What would a list of the world’s largest food and beverage companies look like if there were a ‘food system transformation’?

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