Turning the map: A perspective on UK food security
One way of seeing the UK in a different perspective is to turn the map anti-clockwise, as in the image above. (1) (2)
Read UK investment in horticulture technologies
At the best of times, the UK climate and terrain limits the range and quantity of fresh produce we can grow here. This Brexit means we’ve grown used to empty supermarket shelves, especially now midway through the ‘hungry months‘...
Read It’s not a cost of living crisis. It’s a shortage crisis.
Shortages of any resource mean price rises. The risks and threats to our food supplies are increasing. At an accelerating pace, too.
Read What the government can do to minimise risks to food supplies
In meeting the dietary needs of the 68.6m (and growing) population of the UK, a post-Johnson government needs to take into account the increasing risks to our food supplies.
Read A preliminary analysis of the Government food strategy
Our first take on the Government food strategy is here.
Read 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?
Read How this Brexit is putting our food supplies at risk
This Brexit poses grave threats to our food supplies. And we can catalogue them:
Read Part 5: Safety, assurance and integrity — worker safety, modern day slavery
Under the heading ‘food safety’, I decided to mention the qualitatively different issues associated with the safety of all the people involved along the food supply chain.
Read Part 4: Safety, assurance & integrity — inspection, sampling & testing capacity & capability
I spoke to three aspects of food safety, assurance and integrity, the first being inspection, sampling and testing capacity and capability.
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