Category: UK food security

Food System Transformation #1: Why this blogpost series

In the last few months, we’ve been approached by academic institutions to ‘partner’ them on applications to funding bodies for two large projects, Both are about ‘food system transformation’.

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The natural environment cannot be restored — and what’s “natural” about it anyway?

Our understanding of what’s ‘natural’ is often skewed. Take, for example, John Clift’s photo of Shropshire Spring above.

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The natural environment cannot be “restored”

We didn’t flag up this statement in the National Food Strategy Call for Evidence as it didn’t seem appropriate in our submission. Nonetheless, we think it’s important we challenge it now.

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Climate Change Conference on 6th November 2019 in Birmingham

This is an expanded version of the talk I’m giving at the Climate Change Conference in Birmingham today, 6th November.

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Our submission to the National Food Strategy Call for Evidence

Our submission to the National Food Strategy Call for Evidence is on-line here.

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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:

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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

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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?

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National Food Strategy #18: The price of plums and other social exchanges

The zoo-keeper thought she’d locked all the chimpanzees outside. She hadn’t. One young male, in sight of us visitors, had hidden himself from her. He looked straight at us, I’ll swear he grinned.

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National Food Strategy #17: A statutory funding body

We are pan narrans, a story-telling ape atop Planet A’s food chain, working on a non-fiction account of our own annihilation. A highly plausible ending is within the lifetime of our teenagers.

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