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.
Read It’s not a cost of living crisis. It’s a shortage crisis.
Shortages of any resource mean price rises. The risks and threats to our food supplies are increasing. At an accelerating pace, too.
Read 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...
Read 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...
Read Part 15: When & how do we prepare for future food shortages & scarcities?
When should we prepare for a crisis? The answer is always now.
Read 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:
Read 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.
Read 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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