Six (out of eight) risk ares that require the most urgent attention are about our food supplies
The Committee on Climate Change published its third Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk today.
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 Food System Transformation #11: Covid-19 and its impact on the food supply network
We’re facing an unimaginable ‘food system transformation’ as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. What can we learn from what is happening already?
Read Briefing Note: Risks and Resilience
Will Birmingham and other towns and cities in the UK have sufficient safe, nutritious food in the future?
Read Our Annual Report: Enlightening & disturbing, an urgent wake-up call
Here’s what some reviewers of our 2017-2018 Annual Report said: “Enlightening and disturbing: an urgent wake-up call for us to take these issues seriously, talk about them, raise awareness and influence policy-makers.”
Read A city is yours: “Only nine meals between mankind and anarchy?”
The Beast from the East last spring, and then the heat and drought of the summer damaged harvests. The media has talk of stockpiling food in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit.
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