Category: UK food security

How the UK VAT system identifies vested interests costing us and the earth

Few realise the UK VAT system can precisely identify, at the point of sale, the major powerful global interests skewing our food system. Here’s how it is:

Read

A farmer on how he controls pests attacking his crops

Watch

Briefing Note: Risks and Resilience

Will Birmingham and other towns and cities in the UK have sufficient safe, nutritious food in the future?

Read

An apple a day . . .

Watch

Why talk of grow-your-own (GYO) is irrelevant and unhelpful

In the last 24 hours, a TV news planner and a city councillor have been in touch about grow-your-own (GYO) as solutions to (with the TV guy) getting kids to eat more veg and (the councillor) to food security...

Read

Wheat rust: A fungus that threatens food supplies

Watch

Global risks to UK food supplies: Recommendations for local resilience

In our latest report Global Risks to UK Food Supplies, we spell out the major global risks that will have increasing impact on the UK’s dependency on the global larder. The collocation of these risks in one brief document makes...

Read

Strange New World: Maps & infographics

This blogpost has the maps and infographics from our video Strange New World: Each is replicated below, along with info about where it comes from and/or what it means in relation to safe, nutritious food supplies for the world’s...

Read

Strange New World

Watch

Our Annual Report: Enlightening & disturbing, an urgent wake-up call

Here’s what some reviewers of our 2017-2018 Annual Report said: “Enlightening and disturbing: an urgent wake-up call for us to take these issues seriously, talk about them, raise awareness and influence policy-makers.”

Read