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.
Read 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?
Read 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.
Read 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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