Why talk of grow-your-own (GYO) is irrelevant and unhelpful
In the last 24 hours, a TV news planner and a city councillor have been in touch about grow-your-own (GYO) as solutions to (with the TV guy) getting kids to eat more veg and (the councillor) to food security...
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Our Annual Report: Enlightening & disturbing, an urgent wake-up call
Here’s what some reviewers of our 2017-2018 Annual Report said: “Enlightening and disturbing: an urgent wake-up call for us to take these issues seriously, talk about them, raise awareness and influence policy-makers.”
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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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Inside Government presentation: Background details & info sources
This blogpost gives detailed info associated with my presentation to the Inside Government event Working towards global food security in London on 26th April 2018.
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What Michael Gove didn’t talk about at #OFC2018
What Michael Gove didn’t say in this speech to the Oxford Farming Conference yesterday was far more significant than what he did. He didn’t say a word about food security. Yet food shortages, and looming food insecurity can be...
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To 2050: Paris COP21 & the climate change agreement
The year 2050 marks a landmark horizon. First, this Government’s major ‘city deals’ will have come to fruition; they have a return on investment within 30 years. And secondly, the Paris 2015 Agreement looks to 2050.
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Lunar Society: Climate change & food security
My starter-for-ten for the discussion on climate change and food security tonight for the modern-day Lunar Society is that we need to find qualitatively different kinds of questions on the matter.
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Food security: What’s facing all of us
Global food security is a big issue, perhaps the biggest facing humanity. This blogpost sketches an outline of its key elements through a series of infographics:
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