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.
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