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