Tag: National food strategy

The natural environment cannot be “restored”

We didn’t flag up this statement in the National Food Strategy Call for Evidence as it didn’t seem appropriate in our submission. Nonetheless, we think it’s important we challenge it now.

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Climate Change Conference on 6th November 2019 in Birmingham

This is an expanded version of the talk I’m giving at the Climate Change Conference in Birmingham today, 6th November.

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Our submission to the National Food Strategy Call for Evidence

Our submission to the National Food Strategy Call for Evidence is on-line here.

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National Food Strategy: The supporting blogposts

The blogposts written during the process of compiling our submission to the Call for Evidence for the National Food Strategy are listed here in reverse order:

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National Food Strategy #20: A Public Inquiry led by a senior Judge

We recommend the Government sets up a Public Inquiry, led by a senior Judge. Its concern would be to advise on the structure or body to be an authority to ensure food system players act ethically

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National Food Strategy #6: UK resilience to global risks to food supplies

What should, what can the UK do in the face of the considerable global risks to our food supplies?

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National Food Strategy #5: Global risks to UK food supplies

This blogpost lists the global risks to UK food supplies — and that of course includes supplies into Birmingham.

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National Food Strategy #4: The “irreconcilables”

In our horizon scanning project report, Back from the Future, page 8 listed what we’d termed “the irreconcilables“, some of which came up again during the workshop discussions on 3rd October.

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National Food Strategy #2: Responsibility, resilience & ethics

I was a fascinated observer at a workshop we organised and facilitated last week involving members of our Board along with a senior supermarket executive, a long-standing professional in environmental health inspection, a banker specialising in the agri-food sector...

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National Food Strategy #1: The brief

Last June, the Secretary of State (then Michael Gove) commissioned Henry Dimbleby to conduct an independent review to help the government create its first National Food Strategy for 75 years.

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