National Food Strategy #8: Supply chain permutations are endless
I asked the two workshop participants who’d drawn up the original of the e-version of the supply chain map for their comments on it.
Read Five levers on our food system
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.
Read Our food system as a ‘black box’
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...
Read Why we need to think differently about our food supply network
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.
Read How useful is this PMCC Framework?
We’d like your take on this new thinking tool we’ve devised. Given how opaque and complex the food sector is, we’ve come up with this framework to help people ‘see’ the organisations involved one way or t’other with the...
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