Future System Shocks: Building resilience through buffer contingency stocks?
The impact of Covid-19 lockdown on food supplies threw a harsh spotlight on our response and preparedness for what is potentially much worse to come.
Read Covid-19 commentary: The food supply system into the second month of lockdown
Dairy farmers is serious financial trouble? Top quality truffles at a tenner a kilo? Where has all the flour gone?
Read Food System Transformation #12: A summary of the blogpost series
This blogpost is a summary of this series of blogposts on food system transformation:
Read Food System Transformation #6: The fresh produce supply chain
A “transformed” food system means a radical restructure of what happens between farm gate and retail outlet. Why? It’s where most of the activity and nearly all of the profits lie.
Read National Food Strategy #7: A simplified fresh produce supply chain map
Getting fresh produce into UK cities, the very stuff of your dinner tonight — and that of over 66 million other people in the UK alone, involves a series of complex, dynamically changing operations. A simplified (!) version of...
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