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What should the aim of a Government food strategy be?

The Government so-called ‘food strategy’ published on 13th June doesn’t have an aim. The aim of a national food strategy should confirm the Government’s commitment to ensure all UK citizens have access to sufficient supplies of safe, nutritious food....

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It’s time to think about food supply strategies in a post-Johnson world

Will food security issues rise up the agenda of a post-Johnson Government?

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Part 12: Three more examples using the function map to ‘see’ the food supply landscape differently

The last blogpost has two examples using the function map. This blogpost gives a third, fourth and fifth example. Underpinning all three of them are the climate and terrain of the UK.

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Part 11: Two examples of using the function map to ‘see’ the food supply landscape differently

As stated in the previous blogpost, it’s useful to think of the function of the millions of organisations and people operating across the food supply landscape.

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Part 10: What huge numbers of organisations do

Although the food supply system touches our lives everyday, we see only a minute part of the huge operation it takes to feed us.

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Part 6: Safety, assurance and integrity — ‘drug-foods’ that damage human and planetary health

Few consider the so-called ‘drug-foods’ in the context of food safety. I have done so here, because our over-consumption of them presents dangers to both human and planetary health.

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Part I: Pears grown in Argentina, packed in Thailand

This is the first of a blogpost series on the presentation I gave to the virtual (Zoom) Lunar Society meeting on 12th January entitled Food Security: Is the UK already in crisis?

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Planting the Seed: Theatre director Nick Pitt interviews Kate Cooper about today’s food system

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.

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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...

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