This is our final blogpost in a series of three, giving a retrospective look at the horizon scanning project we undertook in 2017. The time frame? 2030-50. In summary, our predictions in 2017, scary though they were, were way...
The UK is facing the all-too-real prospect of food shortages and scarcities. It is essential that there are buffer stocks of safe, nutritious food for these times.
Amid all the turmoil and flux even at these early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, we strongly recommend decision-makers at a national and local level keep in mind these six important points about our food supplies:
Our horizon scanning project report, Back from the Future, published in January 2018, contained this stark warning: We currently import 40% of our food. But that this food won’t be available in the future. The “long-term” future we looked at...
Are we, I ask at the start of my presentation to the Government Chemist Conference on 14th June, home sapiens (wise wo/man) or pan narrans, the story-telling ape?