National Food Strategy #9: Three scenarios and their risks to the supply chain
Look again at the simplified supply chain map in this blogpost, also replicated below, and imagine three scenarios:
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National Food Strategy #3: The global competition for safe, nutritious food
Our horizon scanning project report, Back from the Future, published in January 2018, contained this stark warning: We currently import 40% of our food. But that this food won’t be available in the future. The “long-term” future we looked at...
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A city is yours: “Only nine meals between mankind and anarchy?”
The Beast from the East last spring, and then the heat and drought of the summer damaged harvests. The media has talk of stockpiling food in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit.
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House Lords EU Committee on Brexit: deal or no deal . . . the agri-food sector
The latest of the House of Lords EU Committee’s excellent reports is Brexit: deal or no deal. One of the case studies, the agri-food sector, is copied below. A warning: The prospect of no deal with regard to our food...
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The UK’s food trade deficit . . . & Brexit
In 2014, Defra’s annual stats reported our food trade deficit was £26.8bn; the UK imported £39.6bn of agri-food products, and exported £12.8bn.
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The impact of Brexit on our food system
Few are talking about the implications of Brexit on our food supplies — and on the whole food sector. Yet the whole food system would be subject to huge change, and not necessarily for the better.
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Referendum briefing paper by Martin Trybus: Access to the EU market after Brexit?
We’ve just published the second of our series of briefing papers on the EU Referendum: The free movement of chocolate: Access to the EU market after Brexit? by Martin Trybus, Professor of European Law at the University of Birmingham.
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Birmingham Food Council Spring Newsletter 2016
We’re about to begin our third year. Our Spring 2016 Newsletter reports on what we’ve achieved over the last couple of years…
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Referendum: What are the implications for agriculture?
The impact of a decision on 23rd June to leave the European Union will have a big impact on British agriculture. Yet food issues don’t yet feature in most arguments about whether we should remain or or leave the EU.
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