Part 4: Safety, assurance & integrity — inspection, sampling & testing capacity & capability
I spoke to three aspects of food safety, assurance and integrity, the first being inspection, sampling and testing capacity and capability.
Read Part 3: Access to food
The Rome Declaration defines access to food in terms of physical access, social access and economic access.
Read Part 2: Food security: How can we assess if the UK is already in crisis?
This succinct, pertinent definition of food security was drawn up at the UN Food & Agriculture Organization 1996 World Summit on Food Security:
Read Part I: Pears grown in Argentina, packed in Thailand
This is the first of a blogpost series on the presentation I gave to the virtual (Zoom) Lunar Society meeting on 12th January entitled Food Security: Is the UK already in crisis?
Read Food security: Is the UK already in crisis?
I’m compiling a blogpost series based on my presentation to the 12th January Lunar Society meeting on Zoom entitled Food Security: Is the UK already in crisis?
Read Scenarios for 2040: #5 Tragedy & mobilization . . . but what’s coming our way in the near-term?
The latest Global Trends edition is to 2040 and subtitled “A more contested world”.
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 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.
Read 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.
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...
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