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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Food Poverty in Perspective : What was rationing like during WW2
We need to look at food poverty in perspective. Think about what we eat now in a fairly sedentary lifestyle. Now look at at what the adult rations were during the Second World war for an active adult. Weekly...
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What can we learn from other times and places about community and food?
Combining your collective experience share what we can learn from other times & cultures? Global Food Poverty is a global issue – places such as Japan are malnourished. Rice is healthy but now when it’s all you can afford –...
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What are the drivers of food poverty now and in the future?
Birmingham Food Council event on food poverty Birchfield Community School, Birmingham 11th May 2015 The event is looking for different perspectives of the food supply system from attendees and asks a pretty big question – are drivers of emergency food...
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