Briefing Note: Risks and Resilience
Will Birmingham and other towns and cities in the UK have sufficient safe, nutritious food in the future?
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Why talk of grow-your-own (GYO) is irrelevant and unhelpful
In the last 24 hours, a TV news planner and a city councillor have been in touch about grow-your-own (GYO) as solutions to (with the TV guy) getting kids to eat more veg and (the councillor) to food security...
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Back from the Future: Time to plan for UK food security
Our report Back from the Future is the culmination of our recent horizon scanning project. And it’s an uncomfortable read, looking out to a mere 6-12 years ahead, let alone towards 2050.
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Professor Chris Elliott: 2030-2050
Chris Elliott is a Professor and Pro-VC at Queens University Belfast. He’s also the founder of the Institute for Global Food Security, and led the Government’s Elliott Review into the integrity and assurance of the food network after the horsemeat...
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To 2050: Paris COP21 & the climate change agreement
The year 2050 marks a landmark horizon. First, this Government’s major ‘city deals’ will have come to fruition; they have a return on investment within 30 years. And secondly, the Paris 2015 Agreement looks to 2050.
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A different society?
If food poverty is just a symptom of poverty and we measure most things in terms of Economic Growth – What would happen if we manage and measure things differently – with different metrics? What if we didn’t measure...
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2025: 10 Years from now? What could it be like?
Table Conversation: May 2025 may seem an age away but where will we be in terms of Food Poverty in Birmingham? You can be bleak – but also be optimistic. If all citizens are well fed….. If all citizens...
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