Category: UK food security

Food System Transformation #7: Loaves don’t grow on trees

The rationale behind writing the last two blogposts, #5: The scale needed for our five-a-day and #6: The fresh produce supply chain was because many (but not all) the nutrients we need come from fruit and vegetables. But nutrients...

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Food System Transformation #6: The fresh produce supply chain

A “transformed” food system means a radical restructure of what happens between farm gate and retail outlet. Why? It’s where most of the activity and nearly all of the profits lie.

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Food System Transformation #5: The scale needed for our five-a-day

Fruit and veg are high in the nutrients we need. So a diet that has lots of fresh fruit and vegetables is a healthy one. But what does this mean in terms of scale for, say, the UK population?

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Food System Transformation #4: A new corporate order?

Here’s a thought experiment: What would a list of the world’s largest food and beverage companies look like if there were a ‘food system transformation’?

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Food System Transformation #3: The economic burden

As well the carrying capacity of the planet, there’s another reason why we need take urgent action. The economic burden of the food sector.

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Food System Transformation #2: Close to the planet’s carrying capacity

We argue in this blogpost that the need for transformation in the food system is desperately urgent.

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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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