Category: Global food security

VAT: A precise mechanism to identify drug food companies in the Journal of Public Health

We’re pleased that our article VAT: A precise mechanism to identify drug food companies appears in the March 2022 issue of the Journal of Public Health. It begins with this important statement: “It’s time to curb the activities of...

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Climate change. Population pressures. This Brexit. Covid. And now the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

30% of the global supply of wheat, 19% of corn, 50% of sunflower oilseed, a significant proportion of fertiliser are being taken out of the world’s food trading system — and, here in the UK, we will be affected...

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A function map of the food supply landscape

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Part 15: When & how do we prepare for future food shortages & scarcities?

When should we prepare for a crisis? The answer is always now.

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Part 14: What threatens our food supplies?

The last three blogposts gave seven examples of food supply disruptions. This one categorises other threats to supplies in this infographic:

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Part 13: Seeing CO2 shortages & Covid through the lens of the function map

This blogpost is about two events two events (CO2 and Covid) which greatly affected food supplies, but originated from outside the food system itself.

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Part 9: The huge quantities of food we need

Nearly all of us are utterly naff when it comes to working with large numbers — as I so ably demonstrated, though didn’t realise in the moment in my talk to the Lunar Society.

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Part 8: Sufficient food for populations

Most people have little understanding of the huge quantities of food that a population needs every day — let alone every year.

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Part 7: Nutrient-dense foods

In the 21st century, we’re experiencing a nutrient famine, with many in the UK already suffering.

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Part 6: Safety, assurance and integrity — ‘drug-foods’ that damage human and planetary health

Few consider the so-called ‘drug-foods’ in the context of food safety. I have done so here, because our over-consumption of them presents dangers to both human and planetary health.

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