Cybernetics Society: UK preparedness for future food system shocks
This is an account of my talk on 12 September 2020 to the UK and American Cybernetics Societies on UK preparedness for future food system shocks:
Read National Food Strategy #16: A UK Food Security Institute
Our horizon scanning project highlighted for us the huge risks to UK food supplies. In our project report, Back from the future, we recommended the Government set up a UK Food Security Institute, a recommendation we repeat here.
Read Government Chemist Conference: Homo sapiens or pan narrans?
Are we, I ask at the start of my presentation to the Government Chemist Conference on 14th June, home sapiens (wise wo/man) or pan narrans, the story-telling ape?
Read 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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