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?
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 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...
Read The Dying of the Ice
This series of BBC podcasts are astonishingly lovely, oddly reverent, deeply frightening.
Read 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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