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.
Read Covid-19 commentary: Four lessons about the preparedness of the UK food supply system
As we emerge from the latest Covid lockdown, here are four lessons to learn about making the UK food supply system better prepared for future shocks.
Read What threatens our food supplies today
During the 1840s, over a million people in Ireland and Scotland starved to death, millions more fled, most to the US or Canada.
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