The Game at the Warwick Crop Centre: Interim Report
We’ve published this Interim Report on The Game at Warwick University: UK food security into the Anthropocene. We are seeking responses to it.
Read Game Players: The value of Warwick Crop Centre experts on future food security challenges
“Fantastic workshop! I’d recommend it not only to peers, but to everyone involved in the food system. Brilliant!”
Read The effects of high temperatures on the human body — and on livestock and crops too
I was lucky enough to spend time in Sante Fe. One day a colleague walked into the office, took one look at me and said, “Drink Kate!” I was wilting before her eyes.
Read Food trade chokepoints: A perspective on UK food security
We’ve witnessed three chokepoint sets of events affecting food trade in the last couple of years:
Read The Holocene has given way to the Anthropocene
The world has been a good place, climate-wise, for humans for the last 11,000 years, an epoch known as the Holocene. We’ve flourished.
Read Turning the map: A perspective on UK food security
One way of seeing the UK in a different perspective is to turn the map anti-clockwise, as in the image above. (1) (2)
Read Latitude: A perspective on UK food security
Birmingham is just below the 53rd parallel, marked by a red line in the map below, nearly two thirds of the way up from the Equator towards the North Pole.
Read Tomato-gate? We ain’t seen nothing yet!
A hotter world will disrupt our food supplies. What can we learn from tomato-gate?
Read Climate breakdown tipping points
Notice the proviso, providing no tipping points are breached above the words “business as usual” in the infographic
Read Should the UK food supply system be put on ‘war footing’? Yes, and here’s why.
Amol Rajan’s recent BBC podcast Rethink Climate: Pledges and progress is brilliant, if disturbing.
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