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?
Read 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
Read 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.
Read 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.
Read 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.
Read Part 3: Economic access to food
The Rome Declaration defines access to food in terms of physical access, social access and economic access.
Read 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.
Read 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...
Read 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:
Read 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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