Tag: #FoodFutures

About the food system in 2021-23: How smart were our predictions in 2017?

This is the first of three blogposts about our retrospective look at the horizon scanning project we undertook in 2017. This one is about how we saw the world three to five years hence; i.e. now and the next...

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The Game: Optimism, Reality and Context . . . dancing on the biscuit of opportunity

“How can you bear to spend so much time thinking about it all?” my friend Anne asked. “You have grandchildren.”

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Food system dynamics: Part I — Follow the money . . . but it isn’t here

Last Saturday (31st March), I woke to the sound of Simon Beckett’s voice, he of Beckett’s Farm in Wythall. He was talking on Radio 4’s Farming Today.

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Why Birmingham needs to think about secure supplies of food into the city

Professor Chris Elliot told the #foodfuture discussion today that the 65 million middle class Chinese people are ceasing to trust their local food supplies.

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Challenges, risks and opportunities in the food sector

On 3rd October 2017, we’re bringing together a group of some 20 diverse specialists across the food sector to explore what the future might hold for the food sector.

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Birmingham: Food futures for us — and for everyone else

Radical changes in our diet could be a major part of us meeting the huge global food security challenges we’re facing. Yet what the heck is any one of us meant to do?

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