The City Council-led food distribution during the pandemic was inevitably inadequate and inefficient
What story should we tell about emergency food distribution during the pandemic?
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 National Food Strategy #13: A local level strategy?
Should a city such as Birmingham have a food strategy of its own? Would it make a difference to the well being and economy of the city?
Read National Food Strategy #11: City level responses to food insecurity
In 2015, we published Food insecurity in Birmingham — a city level response? based on a consultative project we’d run over the previous few months. This blogpost outlines what we said then, and gives our 2019 perspective on it...
Read A city-level response to the drivers for emergency food aid . . .
Our project report Food insecurity in Birmingham — a city-level response? was submitted it to the APPG on Hunger and Food Poverty at the end of October. They thanked us for our ‘huge contribution’.
Read Food Standards Agency: Birmingham City Council audit report
Last April, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) undertook an audit of Birmingham City Council. You can find it on-line here. The FSA undertook this audit “due to ongoing concerns arising from the Authority’s past and present submissions of key...
Read Big Food, Big Soda . . . and Birmingham?
No doubt encouraged by the sponsorship deals struck for the London Olympics, Coca-Cola is now paying for activities in Birmingham parks — with the blessing of the City Council who now include Birmingham Public Health. Should we be concerned?
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