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