How are the rising cost of living & increasing food prices affecting access to healthy, nutritious food?
We had this to say in our response to this question from the EFRA Commons Select Committee Call for Evidence on food security:
Read 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 Climate change. Population pressures. This Brexit. Covid. And now the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
30% of the global supply of wheat, 19% of corn, 50% of sunflower oilseed, a significant proportion of fertiliser are being taken out of the world’s food trading system — and, here in the UK, we will be affected...
Read Assessing the Birmingham Food Strategy
As part of the Healthy Food City Forum, we were asked to assess a draft Birmingham Food Strategy earlier this month.
Read Our Annual Report: The urgent challenge is for socio-political decision-makers . . .
Our latest Annual Report is an unsettling read. One of our reviewers described it as “frightening, stomach-churning”.
Read Criterion 1: Do their recommendations support all UK households to have economic access to sufficient supplies of safe, nutritious food?
Regarding the first of our five criteria in assessing the National Food Strategy: The answer to this question is no.
Read A core, perhaps surprising role for local government and public health
This blogpost summarises the second of our brief papers in this series: Shining a light on the UK food supply system: The role of local government and public health. Only the Government has the economic and policy levers to...
Read Its scale and complexity: When gut instinct works and when it doesn’t
This blogpost summarises this brief paper: Shining a light on the UK food supply system: Its scale and complexity. The preface to it explains that out gut instinct doesn’t work in alien environments — such as the scale and...
Read City-level decision-making & the food system: What questions to ask?
The impact of Covid-19 caught Birmingham’s food system on the hop. Few if any city leaders realised either the fragility of the supply system or their powerlessness in the face of the disruptions it caused to the people of...
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.
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