Part 15: When & how do we prepare for future food shortages & scarcities?
When should we prepare for a crisis? The answer is always now.
Read Part 14: What threatens our food supplies?
The last three blogposts gave seven examples of food supply disruptions. This one categorises other threats to supplies in this infographic:
Read Part 13: Seeing CO2 shortages & Covid through the lens of the function map
This blogpost is about two events two events (CO2 and Covid) which greatly affected food supplies, but originated from outside the food system itself.
Read Part 11: Two examples of using the function map to ‘see’ the food supply landscape differently
As stated in the previous blogpost, it’s useful to think of the function of the millions of organisations and people operating across the food supply landscape.
Read Part 9: The huge quantities of food we need
Nearly all of us are utterly naff when it comes to working with large numbers — as I so ably demonstrated, though didn’t realise in the moment in my talk to the Lunar Society.
Read Part 8: Sufficient food for populations
Most people have little understanding of the huge quantities of food that a population needs every day — let alone every year.
Read Part 7: Nutrient-dense foods
In the 21st century, we’re experiencing a nutrient famine, with many in the UK already suffering.
Read Part 6: Safety, assurance and integrity — ‘drug-foods’ that damage human and planetary health
Few consider the so-called ‘drug-foods’ in the context of food safety. I have done so here, because our over-consumption of them presents dangers to both human and planetary health.
Read Part 5: Safety, assurance and integrity — worker safety, modern day slavery
Under the heading ‘food safety’, I decided to mention the qualitatively different issues associated with the safety of all the people involved along the food supply chain.
Read Part 4: Safety, assurance & integrity — inspection, sampling & testing capacity & capability
I spoke to three aspects of food safety, assurance and integrity, the first being inspection, sampling and testing capacity and capability.
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