Criterion 2: What are their recommendations about ensuring food safety, assurance and integrity?
None.
Read National Food Strategy Plan: Does it meet our five criteria?
We have five criteria to assess the National Food Strategy Plan, published today, 15th July.
Read About the food system in 2021-23: How smart were our predictions in 2017?
This is the first of three blogposts about our retrospective look at the horizon scanning project we undertook in 2017. This one is about how we saw the world three to five years hence; i.e. now and the next...
Read National Food Strategy: The supporting blogposts
The blogposts written during the process of compiling our submission to the Call for Evidence for the National Food Strategy are listed here in reverse order:
Read The Dying of the Ice
This series of BBC podcasts are astonishingly lovely, oddly reverent, deeply frightening.
Read The Game: Optimism, Reality and Context . . . dancing on the biscuit of opportunity
“How can you bear to spend so much time thinking about it all?” my friend Anne asked. “You have grandchildren.”
Read The 6-to-12-year horizon: farming
There is the need to challenge the mindset of farmers. They are into the cyclical processes. The better farmers challenge themselves to improve. This is partly about consolidation – farmer will see greater and greater consolidation, as better ones...
Read Dr. Helen Ferrier – 6 – 12 years outlook
Observations from the NFU policy unit perspective: Farming production has different decision making cycles; Thinking is for as long for as people will be farmers…. eg. Arable has 5-6 year rotations of cereals or veg. In livestock the breeding...
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