Criterion 1: Do their recommendations support all UK households to have economic access to sufficient supplies of safe, nutritious food?
Regarding the first of our five criteria: The answer to this question is no. Not at all.
Read About the food system in 2030-50: How smart were our predictions in 2017?
This is our final blogpost in a series of three, giving a retrospective look at the horizon scanning project we undertook in 2017. The time frame? 2030-50.
Read About the food system in 2024-30: How smart were our predictions in 2017?
As part of our retrospective on our 2017 horizon scanning project, this is our second of three blogposts, about how project participants saw the key drivers, threats and opportunities for food system in 2024-30, then seven years away, now...
Read About the food system in 2021-23: How smart were our predictions in 2017?
This is the first of three blogposts about our retrospective look at the horizon scanning project we undertook in 2017. This one is about how we saw the world three to five years hence; i.e. now and the next...
Read A steady degradation of our food supply system
We can see something is wrong with the food system, and that things have been getting steadily worse over the last couple of decades or so, not least from the seriousness of rising cases of diet-related morbidities (cruelly exposed...
Read ‘It’s broken isn’t it?” Nope, it’s not. (But that’s not to say all is well.)
The image above, of pears grown in Argentina and packed in Thailand, did the rounds on twitter yesterday. Chris Packham tweeted this:
Read Six (out of eight) risk ares that require the most urgent attention are about our food supplies
The Committee on Climate Change published its third Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk today.
Read A core, perhaps surprising role for local government and public health
This blogpost summarises the second of our brief papers in this series: Shining a light on the UK food supply system: The role of local government and public health. Only the Government has the economic and policy levers to...
Read A series of short papers: Shining a light on the UK food supply system
We’ve begun a series of short papers about the UK food supply system, and will list them below as and when published:
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