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.
Read Part 7: Nutrient-dense foods
In the 21st century, we’re experiencing a nutrient famine, with many in the UK already suffering.
Read 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.
Read Part 5: Safety, assurance and integrity — worker safety, modern day slavery
Under the heading ‘food safety’, I decided to mention the qualitatively different issues associated with the safety of all the people involved along the food supply chain.
Read Part 4: Safety, assurance & integrity — inspection, sampling & testing capacity & capability
I spoke to three aspects of food safety, assurance and integrity, the first being inspection, sampling and testing capacity and capability.
Read Part 3: Economic access to food
The Rome Declaration defines access to food in terms of physical access, social access and economic access.
Read Part 2: Food security: How can we assess if the UK is already in crisis?
This succinct, pertinent definition of food security was drawn up at the UN Food & Agriculture Organization 1996 World Summit on Food Security:
Read Part I: Pears grown in Argentina, packed in Thailand
This is the first of a blogpost series on the presentation I gave to the virtual (Zoom) Lunar Society meeting on 12th January entitled Food Security: Is the UK already in crisis?
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This is a list of the blogposts supporting my presentation to the 12th January Lunar Society meeting on Zoom entitled Food Security: Is the UK already in crisis?
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