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.
Read Scale of supplies. Price rises. Why they are inevitable. What can BCC/BPH do?
In this short presentation to the Healthy Food City Forum, I made three points:
Read Eat local, eat organic: When and where are these statements relevant to UK food supplies?
Nearly 20 years ago, I read an intriguing longitudinal study of ant colonies by a Stanford University Prof, one Deborah Gordon. And yes, her insights are relevant to the decisions we make about our food system.
Read Our food system is failing — and it’s about to get dramatically worse
I hope I’m wrong. But there’s no evidence to suggest I am.
Read Our Response to an IPPR Call for Evidence: Food and the recovery of nature, communities and livelihoods
Our Response to this IPPR Call for Evidence, submitted to them last week, is also published on-line here.
Read Future System Shocks: A buffer stock system of nutrient-dense foods is essential — and feasible
The UK is facing the all-too-real prospect of food shortages and scarcities. It is essential that there are buffer stocks of safe, nutritious food for these times.
Read Future System Shocks: Food, people and the UK Government
A super-efficient commercial food system comes at a price. It’s fragile, as many millions learned to their cost when supplies are disrupted as with Covid-19. And secondly, only those who have the money to participate in the system can...
Read Cybernetics Society: UK preparedness for future food system shocks
This is an account of my talk on 12 September 2020 to the UK and American Cybernetics Societies on UK preparedness for future food system shocks:
Read Future System Shocks: A Committee on Food Security?
Should the UK have a Committee on Food Security, similar to the Committee on Climate Change?(1)
Read Future System Shocks: A thought experiment about buffer food stocks
Our latest report UK preparedness for future system shocks is a thought experiment.
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