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...
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...
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...
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...
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.