Category: Global food security

Food System Transformation #7: Loaves don’t grow on trees

The rationale behind writing the last two blogposts, #5: The scale needed for our five-a-day and #6: The fresh produce supply chain was because many (but not all) the nutrients we need come from fruit and vegetables. But nutrients...

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Food System Transformation #6: The fresh produce supply chain

A “transformed” food system means a radical restructure of what happens between farm gate and retail outlet. Why? It’s where most of the activity and nearly all of the profits lie.

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Food System Transformation #4: A new corporate order?

Here’s a thought experiment: What would a list of the world’s largest food and beverage companies look like if there were a ‘food system transformation’?

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Food System Transformation #2: Close to the planet’s carrying capacity

We argue in this blogpost that the need for transformation in the food system is desperately urgent.

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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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