This blogpost provides the inputs to the afternoon workshop I’m facilitating at the Sustainability Conference on 28th September. A more comprehensive version, with links to more info (including answers to the questions), is in this document the 21st century challenge:...
This blogpost summarises this brief paper: Shining a light on the UK food supply system: Its scale and complexity. The preface to it explains that out gut instinct doesn’t work in alien environments — such as the scale and...
Birmingham spends some £3.4bn every year on food and drink, yet the cost of obesity to the city has been estimated to be £2.6bn, with a further £448M being spent here on dealing with alcohol related harm.
Imagine the food system is a black box. You can’t see what’s going in, nor see inside it. But emerging from it are all the food and drinks bought by all of us in Birmingham today. On the outside are a...
Our food supply network is a complex system. And therefore has certain features which we need to take into account when we think about it, or seek to change it.