The Game at the Warwick Crop Centre: Interim Report
We’ve published this Interim Report on The Game at Warwick University: UK food security into the Anthropocene. We are seeking responses to it.
Read “We cannot find anything substantive and implementable in the White Paper”
“We cannot find anything substantive and implementable in the White Paper that will beneficially affect UK food security, the resilience of food supply chains, any particular sector within the food system or access to healthy nutritious food.”
Read UK food price inflation: What policy interventions should the Government consider?
The EFRA Commons Select Committee asked a pertinent question in their Call for Evidence, to which we responded in full here.
Read Imagine we consumed 70% less confectionery, crisps and fizzy drinks
The impact on our health, especially the long-terms benefits for our kids, would be massive.
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 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 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 ‘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:
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...
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