Category: Food system decision-making

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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‘It’s broken isn’t it?” Nope, it’s not. (But that’s not to say all is well.)

The image above, of pears grown in Argentina and packed in Thailand, did the rounds on twitter yesterday. Chris Packham tweeted this:

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Dr Lauren Traczykowski Three Minute Lecture: Ethics in a crisis

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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...

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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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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...

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Seeds — Behind the scenes. Podcast interview with Kate Cooper

Nick Pitt interviewed me as part of the background story to the No Stone highly acclaimed podcast series Seeds,

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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...

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Eat local, eat organic: When and where are these statements relevant to UK food supplies?

Nearly 20 years ago, I read an intriguing longitudinal study of ant colonies by a Stanford University Prof, one Deborah Gordon. And yes, her insights are relevant to the decisions we make about our food system.

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