National Food Strategy: The supporting blogposts
The blogposts written during the process of compiling our submission to the Call for Evidence for the National Food Strategy are listed here in reverse order:
Read National Food Strategy #20: A Public Inquiry led by a senior Judge
We recommend the Government sets up a Public Inquiry, led by a senior Judge. Its concern would be to advise on the structure or body to be an authority to ensure food system players act ethically
Read National Food Strategy #19: Rights, responsibilities, principles and an elephant
How do we judge what our rights and responsibilities are about food? And the rights and responsibilities of other people? Organisations? Chimpanzees and other living animals and plants?
Read National Food Strategy #16: A UK Food Security Institute
Our horizon scanning project highlighted for us the huge risks to UK food supplies. In our project report, Back from the future, we recommended the Government set up a UK Food Security Institute, a recommendation we repeat here.
Read National Food Strategy #15: Drug foods and their specific risks to the food supply system
The profits and prevalence of drug-food companies present specific and damaging risks to the UK food supply chain.
Read 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.
Read 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...
Read 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?
Read 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.
Read 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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