The City Council-led food distribution during the pandemic was inevitably inadequate and inefficient
What story should we tell about emergency food distribution during the pandemic?
Read Are there any plans about further food shortages and scarcities in the UK? Nope . . .
No-one appears to be working on possible responses to further food shortages and scarcities.
Read Part 3: Economic access to food
The Rome Declaration defines access to food in terms of physical access, social access and economic access.
Read Its scale and complexity: When gut instinct works and when it doesn’t
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...
Read Covid-19 commentary: Neither the food system nor the Government was prepared for the pandemic
Pre-Covid, few policy-makers and decision-makers had taken food security seriously. Even fewer were aware of the fragility of the food system, or how powerless local authorities would be to mitigate the effects of food insecurity for so many.
Read Covid 19 commentary: Has the time come to trial a universal basic income?
From the start, Covid-19 was the opposite of a “great equaliser”. Not only are the poor disproportionately ill and dying, but they are going hungry, often choosing between paying rent or eating.
Read Covid-19 commentary: A really useful mapping of mutual aid groups
If you don’t know where to go or what organisation to turn to, click on this map which will redirect you to the Mutual Aid UK Group website:
Read What Michael Gove didn’t talk about at #OFC2018
What Michael Gove didn’t say in this speech to the Oxford Farming Conference yesterday was far more significant than what he did. He didn’t say a word about food security. Yet food shortages, and looming food insecurity can be...
Read Birmingham Food Council Spring Newsletter 2016
We’re about to begin our third year. Our Spring 2016 Newsletter reports on what we’ve achieved over the last couple of years…
Read A city-level response to the drivers for emergency food aid . . .
Our project report Food insecurity in Birmingham — a city-level response? was submitted it to the APPG on Hunger and Food Poverty at the end of October. They thanked us for our ‘huge contribution’.
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