Should the UK food supply system be put on ‘war footing’? Yes, and here’s why. Amol Rajan’s recent BBC podcast Rethink Climate: Pledges and progress is brilliant, if disturbing. Read
Our Annual Report: The urgent challenge is for socio-political decision-makers . . . Our latest Annual Report is an unsettling read. One of our reviewers described it as “frightening, stomach-churning”. Read
Six (out of eight) risk ares that require the most urgent attention are about our food supplies The Committee on Climate Change published its third Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk today. 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. Read
Scale of supplies. Price rises. Why they are inevitable. What can BCC/BPH do? In this short presentation to the Healthy Food City Forum, I made three points: Read
Cybernetics Society: UK preparedness for future food system shocks This is an account of my talk on 12 September 2020 to the UK and American Cybernetics Societies on UK preparedness for future food system shocks: Read
Future System Shocks: A Committee on Food Security? Should the UK have a Committee on Food Security, similar to the Committee on Climate Change?(1) Read
Climate Change Conference on 6th November 2019 in Birmingham This is an expanded version of the talk I’m giving at the Climate Change Conference in Birmingham today, 6th November. Read