Preparedness: “What we’ve dealt with as a crisis, needs to be routine”
In this interview with Channel 4 about storm Eunice on 18th February, Baroness Brown said: “What we’ve dealt with as a crisis, needs to be routine”:
Read Part 15: When & how do we prepare for future food shortages & scarcities?
When should we prepare for a crisis? The answer is always now.
Read National Food Strategy: None of our criteria was met. Does this matter?
None of our five criteria was met (they are listed at the end of the post). This matters. This blogpost summarises why.
Read Criterion 4: What contribution does this plan make to UK preparedness for future food shortages and scarcities?
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. But they should have done.
Read 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.
Read 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,
Read 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:
Read Future System Shocks: A thought experiment about buffer food stocks
Our latest report UK preparedness for future system shocks is a thought experiment.
Read 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.
Read 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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