Category: Global food security

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...

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Criterion 4: What contribution does this plan make to UK preparedness for future food shortages and scarcities?

The National Food Strategy didn’t consider UK preparedness for future food shortages and scarcities, as we ask in this fourth question about the National Food Strategy. Few do. But they should have done.

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About the food system in 2030-50: How smart were our predictions in 2017?

This is our final blogpost in a series of three, giving a retrospective look at the horizon scanning project we undertook in 2017. The time frame? 2030-50.

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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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A steady degradation of our food supply system

We can see something is wrong with the food system, and that things have been getting steadily worse over the last couple of decades or so, not least from the seriousness of rising cases of diet-related morbidities (cruelly exposed...

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‘It’s broken isn’t it?” Nope, it’s not. (But that’s not to say all is well.)

The image above, of pears grown in Argentina and packed in Thailand, did the rounds on twitter yesterday. Chris Packham tweeted this:

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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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The food supply chain: What does it actually do?

This question is about the function of the supply chain, not its physical structure.

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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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