Category: News

Welcome to three new Board members

We’re delighted to welcome lawyer Junaid Haroon, public health researcher and former GP, Dr Miranda Pallan and ethicist Lauren Traczykowski to our Board, each bringing a different, valuable perspective to our work:

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Sarah Gurr joins our Panel of Experts

We’re delighted that Professor Sarah Gurr has joined our Panel of Experts. I first met her at the Inside Government meeting last April, where she gave a fascinating but chilling talk on the pathogens that view our crops as their...

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Come to our #FoodFutures (interactive, musical) meeting @ImpactHubBham on 28th November

Do sign up here for our Annual Meeting, this year an interactive affair with live music!

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Birmingham: Food futures for us — and for everyone else

Radical changes in our diet could be a major part of us meeting the huge global food security challenges we’re facing. Yet what the heck is any one of us meant to do?

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Birmingham Food Council Spring Newsletter 2016

We’re about to begin our third year. Our Spring 2016 Newsletter reports on what we’ve achieved over the last couple of years…

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Molly Jahn & Aled Jones: Lloyds of London food system shock scenario

Molly Jahn is a Professor at the University of WIsconsin-Madison, has advised the White House on food security matters — and is on our Panel of Experts.

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Food Standards Agency CEO Catherine Brown addresses our Annual Meeting

These are the slides Catherine Brown, the FSA’s CEO used when she addressed our first Annual Meeting held on 4th November 2015.

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FSA Chief Executive Catherine Brown to address our first Annual Meeting

On 4th November, Catherine Brown returns to Birmingham to address our first Annual Meeting. Mark Rogers will be chairing. Registration is via eventbrite here. It’s timely that Catherine returns to the city. Food safety and integrity is of increasing concern...

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Annual Report 2014-2015

We published our 2014-15 Annual Report in September. It’s been a good first year since our incorporation as a CIC in March 2014. We spent the first six months sorting out governance and organisational stuff and, of course, populate this...

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Andrew Clark, Director of Policy at NFU joins our Board of Directors

We’re very pleased to welcome Andrew Clark , Director of Policy at the National Farmers Union to our Board of Directors. Andrew joins our six existing Board members: Kate Cooper, Chair Caroline Hutton from Growing Birmingham Dr John Middleton, VP of...

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