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 Criterion #5: How much does the plan reflect a reliance on individual behaviour, and how much on measures to promote collective resilience?
In the risk table at the end of the previous blogpost in this series about the National Food Strategy, we made the point that people with diet-related morbidities are exhorted to change [their] behaviour, rather than given support and...
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 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...
Read 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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