Category: Global food security

Why talk of grow-your-own (GYO) is irrelevant and unhelpful

In the last 24 hours, a TV news planner and a city councillor have been in touch about grow-your-own (GYO) as solutions to (with the TV guy) getting kids to eat more veg and (the councillor) to food security...

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Wheat rust: A fungus that threatens food supplies

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The shrinking Aral Sea

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Global risks to UK food supplies: Recommendations for local resilience

In our latest report Global Risks to UK Food Supplies, we spell out the major global risks that will have increasing impact on the UK’s dependency on the global larder. The collocation of these risks in one brief document makes...

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Imagine a world without bees

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Strange New World: Maps & infographics

This blogpost has the maps and infographics from our video Strange New World: Each is replicated below, along with info about where it comes from and/or what it means in relation to safe, nutritious food supplies for the world’s...

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Strange New World

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An introduction to soil security

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Our Annual Report: Enlightening & disturbing, an urgent wake-up call

Here’s what some reviewers of our 2017-2018 Annual Report said: “Enlightening and disturbing: an urgent wake-up call for us to take these issues seriously, talk about them, raise awareness and influence policy-makers.”

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When is a food company not a food company?

A crowded room, too narrow for the number of people jostling for tea, coffee and the pastries on offer. A chance for people from the food industry to mingle with university researchers and find common ground. A chance for academics...

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