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:
Read 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.
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 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.
Read 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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