It’s time to think about food supply strategies in a post-Johnson world
Will food security issues rise up the agenda of a post-Johnson Government?
Read How this Brexit is putting our food supplies at risk
This Brexit poses grave threats to our food supplies. And we can catalogue them:
Read Our Annual Report: The urgent challenge is for socio-political decision-makers . . .
Our latest Annual Report is an unsettling read. One of our reviewers described it as “frightening, stomach-churning”.
Read National Food Strategy Plan: None of our criteria was met. Does this matter?
1: None of our five criteria was met (they are listed at the end of the post). This matters. This blogpost summarises why.
Read Criterion 1: Do their recommendations support all UK households to have economic access to sufficient supplies of safe, nutritious food?
Regarding the first of our five criteria in assessing the National Food Strategy: The answer to this question is no.
Read National Food Strategy Plan: Does it meet our five criteria?
We have five criteria to assess the National Food Strategy Plan, published today, 15th July.
Read Our food system is failing — and it’s about to get dramatically worse
I hope I’m wrong. But there’s no evidence to suggest I am.
Read Food System Transformation #6: The fresh produce supply chain
A “transformed” food system means a radical restructure of what happens between farm gate and retail outlet. Why? It’s where most of the activity and nearly all of the profits lie.
Read 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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