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.
Read Covid 19 commentary: Has the time come to trial a universal basic income?
From the start, Covid-19 was the opposite of a “great equaliser”. Not only are the poor disproportionately ill and dying, but they are going hungry, often choosing between paying rent or eating.
Read Covid-19 commentary: Will there be shortages? HMG need prepare for the worst (while hoping for the best)
The Government appears unprepared for food shortages and scarcities. They need to act. And fast. Preparedness is everything before a crisis hits.
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