preparedness – Birmingham Food Council

Criterion #4: What contribution does this plan make to UK preparedness for future food shortages and scarcities?

It’s not surprising that the National Food Strategy didn’t consider UK preparedness for future food shortages and scarcities, as we ask in this fourth question about the National Food Strategy. Few do.

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Covid-19 commentary: Four lessons about the preparedness of the UK food supply system

As we emerge from the latest Covid lockdown, here are four lessons to learn about making the UK food supply system better prepared for future shocks.

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Seeds — Behind the scenes. Podcast interview with Kate Cooper

Nick Pitt interviewed me as part of the background story to the No Stone highly acclaimed podcast series Seeds,

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Cybernetics Society: UK preparedness for future food system shocks

This is an account of my talk on 12 September 2020 to the UK and American Cybernetics Societies on UK preparedness for future food system shocks:

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Future System Shocks: A thought experiment about buffer food stocks

Our latest report UK preparedness for future system shocks is a thought experiment.

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Future System Shocks: Building resilience through buffer contingency stocks?

The impact of Covid-19 lockdown on food supplies threw a harsh spotlight on our response and preparedness for what is potentially much worse to come.

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Covid 19 commentary: Trialling a universal basic income revisited

In mid-April, we put forward this argument to trial a Universal Basic Income.

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