Category: Global food security

Food System Transformation #1: Why this blogpost series

In the last few months, we’ve been approached by academic institutions to ‘partner’ them on applications to funding bodies for two large projects, Both are about ‘food system transformation’.

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The natural environment cannot be restored — and what’s “natural” about it anyway?

Our understanding of what’s ‘natural’ is often skewed. Take, for example, John Clift’s photo of Shropshire Spring above.

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Climate Change Conference on 6th November 2019 in Birmingham

This is an expanded version of the talk I’m giving at the Climate Change Conference in Birmingham today, 6th November.

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National Food Strategy: The supporting blogposts

The blogposts written during the process of compiling our submission to the Call for Evidence for the National Food Strategy are listed here in reverse order:

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National Food Strategy #20: A Public Inquiry led by a senior Judge

We recommend the Government sets up a Public Inquiry, led by a senior Judge. Its concern would be to advise on the structure or body to be an authority to ensure food system players act ethically

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National Food Strategy #19: Rights, responsibilities, principles and an elephant

How do we judge what our rights and responsibilities are about food? And the rights and responsibilities of other people? Organisations? Chimpanzees and other living animals and plants?

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National Food Strategy #16: A UK Food Security Institute

Our horizon scanning project highlighted for us the huge risks to UK food supplies. In our project report, Back from the future, we recommended the Government set up a UK Food Security Institute, a recommendation we repeat here.

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National Food Strategy #15: Drug foods and their specific risks to the food supply system

The profits and prevalence of drug-food companies present specific and damaging risks to the UK food supply chain.

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National Food Strategy #10: The space between farm gate and food outlet

I’ve posted a series of images on our instagram account about the food supply chain between farm gate and food outlet, including the one of the port of Dover above. Such images are difficult to find.

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National Food Strategy #7: A simplified fresh produce supply chain map

Getting fresh produce into UK cities, the very stuff of your dinner tonight — and that of over 66 million other people in the UK alone, involves a series of complex, dynamically changing operations. A simplified (!) version of...

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