Our Response to an IPPR Call for Evidence: Food and the recovery of nature, communities and livelihoods
Our Response to this IPPR Call for Evidence, submitted to them last week, is also published on-line here.
Read Future System Shocks: Food, people and the UK Government
A super-efficient commercial food system comes at a price. It’s fragile, as many millions learned to their cost when supplies are disrupted as with Covid-19. And secondly, only those who have the money to participate in the system can...
Read It’s time to act against drug-food corporations for the health of the population and the planet
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) published our Rapid Response to an article by Tim Spector & Christopher Gardner’s
Read Cybernetics Society: UK preparedness for future food system shocks
This is an account of my talk on 12 September 2020 to the UK and American Cybernetics Societies on UK preparedness for future food system shocks:
Read Future System Shocks: A Committee on Food Security?
Should the UK have a Committee on Food Security, similar to the Committee on Climate Change?
Read Future System Shocks: A thought experiment about buffer food stocks
Our latest report UK preparedness for future system shocks is a thought experiment.
Read Future System Shocks: Building resilience through buffer contingency stocks?
The impact of Covid-19 lockdown on food supplies threw a harsh spotlight on our response and preparedness for what is potentially much worse to come.
Read Covid-19 commentary: Coming out of lockdown: An account of food supply system fragilities
Things could have been worse, much worse. Nonetheless, lockdowns across the world have exposed serious fragilities in the UK food supply system:
Read Covid-19 commentary: Re-think food and farming on this week’s Farming Today
This week’s Farming Today was outstanding. And I’m not just saying that because Barbara Bray was the first speaker.
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