Tag: logistics

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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Covid-19 commentary: Coming out of lockdown: An account of food supply system fragilities

Things could have been worse, much worse. Nonetheless, lockdowns across the world have exposed serious fragilities in the UK food supply system:

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Covid-19 commentary: Re-think food and farming on this week’s Farming Today

This week’s Farming Today was outstanding. And I’m not just saying that because Barbara Bray was the first speaker.

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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?

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Covid-19 commentary: Lockdown impacts on labour and distribution of fresh produce

Never forget that UK imports 30% of its food from EU27, of which 76% are vegetables and 40% are seeds and nuts, a good proportion of which comes in over the winter months before the UK harvests kick in.

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National Food Strategy #9: Three scenarios and their risks to the supply chain

Look again at the simplified supply chain map in this blogpost, also replicated below, and imagine three scenarios:

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