National Food Strategy Plan: None of our criteria was met. Does this matter?
None of our five criteria was met (they are listed at the end of the post). This matters. This blogpost summarises why.
Read A steady degradation of our food supply system
We can see something is wrong with the food system, and that things have been getting steadily worse over the last couple of decades or so, not least from the seriousness of rising cases of diet-related morbidities (cruelly exposed...
Read Covid-19 commentary: Four lessons about the preparedness of the UK food supply system
As we emerge from the latest Covid lockdown, here are four lessons to learn about making the UK food supply system better prepared for future shocks.
Read Future System Shocks: Food, people and the UK Government
A super-efficient commercial food system comes at a price. It’s fragile, as many millions learned to their cost when supplies are disrupted as with Covid-19. And secondly, only those who have the money to participate in the system can...
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 Covid-19 commentary: Re-think food and farming on this week’s Farming Today
This week’s Farming Today was outstanding. And I’m not just saying that because Barbara Bray was the first speaker.
Read Covid-19 commentary: 13 features of our pre-Covid food system . . .
Noticing and responding to the frailties and weaknesses of the pre-Covid UK food system as they’re being exposed through this crisis,
Read Covid-19 commentary: The risks inherent in loosening regulations
The Government has introduced ‘temporary’ lifting of regulations affecting the food supply system,
Read National Food Strategy #13: A local level strategy?
Should a city such as Birmingham have a food strategy of its own? Would it make a difference to the well being and economy of the city?
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