What threatens our food supplies today
During the 1840s, over a million people in Ireland and Scotland starved to death, millions more fled, most to the US or Canada.
Read Seeds — Behind the scenes. Podcast interview with Kate Cooper
Nick Pitt interviewed me as part of the background story to the No Stone highly acclaimed podcast series Seeds,
Read Food security & resilience: What role should the WMCA play?
This blogpost is about West Midlands Combined Authority-level decision-making and its relevance to food security and resilience matters.
Read Scale of supplies. Price rises. Why they are inevitable. What can BCC/BPH do?
In this short presentation to the Healthy Food City Forum, I made three points:
Read City-level decision-making & the food system: What questions to ask?
The impact of Covid-19 caught Birmingham’s food system on the hop. Few if any city leaders realised either the fragility of the supply system or their powerlessness in the face of the disruptions it caused to the people of...
Read Eat local, eat organic: When and where are these statements relevant to UK food supplies?
Nearly 20 years ago, I read an intriguing longitudinal study of ant colonies by a Stanford University Prof, one Deborah Gordon. And yes, her insights are relevant to the decisions we make about our food system.
Read Our food system is failing — and it’s about to get dramatically worse
I hope I’m wrong. But there’s no evidence to suggest I am.
Read 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...
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