Category: Future food system shocks

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...

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About the food system in 2021-23: How smart were our predictions in 2017?

This is the first of three blogposts about our retrospective look at the horizon scanning project we undertook in 2017. This one is about how we saw the world three to five years hence; i.e. now and the next...

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Dr Lauren Traczykowski Three Minute Lecture: Ethics in a crisis

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Six (out of eight) risk ares that require the most urgent attention are about our food supplies

The Committee on Climate Change published its third Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk today.

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Emergency food planning — is it possible at a local authority level?

In terms of food supplies into a city, town or, indeed, a rural community, what constitutes “an emergency”? Is there one now?

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Covid-19 commentary: Four lessons about the preparedness of the UK food supply system

As we emerge from the latest Covid lockdown, here are four lessons to learn about making the UK food supply system better prepared for future shocks.

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What threatens our food supplies today

During the 1840s, over a million people in Ireland and Scotland starved to death, millions more fled, most to the US or Canada.

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Podcast interview with Kate Cooper

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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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Food security & resilience: What role should the WMCA play?

This blogpost is about West Midlands Combined Authority-level decision-making and its relevance to food security and resilience matters.

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