National Food Strategy #15: A UK Food Security Institute?
In our horizon scanning report, Back from the future, we recommended the Government set up a UK Food Security Institute.
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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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National Food Strategy #6: UK resilience to global risks to food supplies
What should, what can the UK do in the face of the considerable global risks to our food supplies?
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National Food Strategy #5: Global risks to UK food supplies
This blogpost lists the global risks to UK food supplies — and that of course includes supplies into Birmingham.
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National Food Strategy #4: The “irreconcilables”
In our horizon scanning project report, Back from the Future, page 8 listed what we’d termed “the irreconcilables“, some of which came up again during the workshop discussions on 3rd October.
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National Food Strategy #3: The global competition for safe, nutritious food
Our horizon scanning project report, Back from the Future, published in January 2018, contained this stark warning: We currently import 40% of our food. But that this food won’t be available in the future. The “long-term” future we looked at...
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National Food Strategy #1: The brief
Last June, the Secretary of State (then Michael Gove) commissioned Henry Dimbleby to conduct an independent review to help the government create its first National Food Strategy for 75 years.
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Annual Report: Timely and pertinent work
“Both the course of events within the UK over a possible Brexit, and the troubling forecasts about climate change, resource depletion and population pressures mean the work described over the next few pages is even more timely and pertinent...
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Drugs & Rock & Roll?
This blogpost gives background info behind our latest video Drugs & Rock & Roll? about drug foods, what they are and a bit about their history.
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