Category: UK food security

“We cannot find anything substantive and implementable in the White Paper”

“We cannot find anything substantive and implementable in the White Paper that will beneficially affect UK food security, the resilience of food supply chains, any particular sector within the food system or access to healthy nutritious food.”

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How are the rising cost of living & increasing food prices affecting access to healthy, nutritious food?

We had this to say in our response to this question from the EFRA Commons Select Committee Call for Evidence on food security:

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UK food price inflation: What policy interventions should the Government consider?

The EFRA Commons Select Committee asked a pertinent question in their Call for Evidence, to which we responded in full here.

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The City Council-led food distribution during the pandemic was inevitably inadequate and inefficient

What story should we tell about emergency food distribution during the pandemic?

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Imagine we consumed 70% less confectionery, crisps and fizzy drinks

The impact on our health, especially the long-terms benefits for our kids, would be massive.

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Our response to the Birmingham food system strategy consultation draft

In this, Our Response to the City Council’s Consultation Draft of their proposed food system strategy, we strongly recommended

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Where have all the agri-food policy experts gone?

Gone from Defra, every one? Not quite, it seems, but many had by the end of 2019.(1)

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It’s not a cost of living crisis. It’s a shortage crisis.

Shortages of any resource mean price rises. The risks and threats to our food supplies are increasing. At an accelerating pace, too.

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Will this Government White Paper on food strategy sink with barely a trace?

The Government White Paper on food security has been heavily criticised by many. Notably, on the day it was published, Lord Deben in the House of Lords was scathing, saying it is not actually a food strategy [ ] it...

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What the government can do to minimise risks to food supplies

In meeting the dietary needs of the 68.6m (and growing) population of the UK, a post-Johnson government needs to take into account the increasing risks to our food supplies.

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