It’s not a cost of living crisis. It’s a shortage crisis.
Shortages of any resource mean price rises. The risks and threats to our food supplies are increasing. At an accelerating pace, too.
Read It’s time to think about food supply strategies in a post-Johnson world
Will food security issues rise up the agenda of a post-Johnson Government?
Read Food System Transformation #8: The geometry of the box [we need to think outside of]
Biologist Jack Cohen, one of the New Optimists scientists, used to say that you cannot ‘think outside of the box’ unless you know the geometry of it very well indeed.
Read National Food Strategy #9: Three scenarios and their risks to the supply chain
Look again at the simplified supply chain map in this blogpost, also replicated below, and imagine three scenarios:
Read The UK’s food trade deficit . . . & Brexit
In 2014, Defra’s annual stats reported our food trade deficit was £26.8bn; the UK imported £39.6bn of agri-food products, and exported £12.8bn.
Read Referendum: What are the implications for agriculture?
The impact of a decision on 23rd June to leave the European Union will have a big impact on British agriculture. Yet food issues don’t yet feature in most arguments about whether we should remain or or leave the EU.
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