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
Food trade chokepoints: A perspective on UK food security We’ve witnessed three chokepoint sets of events affecting food trade in the last couple of years: Read
Eight ways in which the UK food supply system could be on a ‘war footing’ In this blogpost, we put forward eight ways in which the UK food supply system could be put on a war footing, Read
Should the UK food supply system be put on ‘war footing’? Yes, and here’s why. Amol Rajan’s recent BBC podcast Rethink Climate: Pledges and progress is brilliant, if disturbing. Read
Part I: Pears grown in Argentina, packed in Thailand This is the first of a blogpost series on the presentation I gave to the virtual (Zoom) Lunar Society meeting on 12th January entitled Food Security: Is the UK already in crisis? 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
Scenarios for 2040: #5 Tragedy & mobilization . . . but what’s coming our way in the near-term? The latest Global Trends edition is to 2040 and subtitled “A more contested world”. 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
CO2 shortages affects many functions across the food supply system CO2 is used across the food supply system. So the current CO2 shortage inevitably has knock-on affects on our food supplies. Read