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 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 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 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 4: Safety, assurance & integrity — inspection, sampling & testing capacity & capability
I spoke to three aspects of food safety, assurance and integrity, the first being inspection, sampling and testing capacity and capability.
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 About the food system in 2024-30: How smart were our predictions in 2017?
As part of our retrospective on our 2017 horizon scanning project, this is our second of three blogposts, about how project participants saw the key drivers, threats and opportunities for food system in 2024-30, then seven years away, now...
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...
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