Tag: food security

What should the aim of a Government food strategy be?

The Government so-called ‘food strategy’ published on 13th June doesn’t have an aim. The aim of a national food strategy should confirm the Government’s commitment to ensure all UK citizens have access to sufficient supplies of safe, nutritious food....

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How this Brexit is putting our food supplies at risk

This Brexit poses grave threats to our food supplies. And we can catalogue them:

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Food security: Is the UK already in crisis?

This is a list of the blogposts supporting my presentation to the 12th January Lunar Society meeting on Zoom entitled Food Security: Is the UK already in crisis?

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Our Annual Report: The urgent challenge is for socio-political decision-makers . . .

Our latest Annual Report is an unsettling read. One of our reviewers described it as “frightening, stomach-churning”.

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David Middleton Sustainability Conference: 28th September 2021

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:...

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Criterion 4: What contribution does this plan make to UK preparedness for future food shortages and scarcities?

The National Food Strategy didn’t consider UK preparedness for future food shortages and scarcities, as we ask in this fourth question about the National Food Strategy. Few do. But they should have done.

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‘It’s broken isn’t it?” Nope, it’s not. (But that’s not to say all is well.)

The image above, of pears grown in Argentina and packed in Thailand, did the rounds on twitter yesterday. Chris Packham tweeted this:

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A series of short papers: Shining a light on the UK food supply system

We’ve begun a series of short papers about the UK food supply system, and will list them below as and when published:

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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...

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Seeds — Behind the scenes. Podcast interview with Kate Cooper

Nick Pitt interviewed me as part of the background story to the No Stone highly acclaimed podcast series Seeds,

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