Future System Shocks: A Committee on Food Security?
Should the UK have a Committee on Food Security, similar to the Committee on Climate Change?(1)
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: Recovery and ratios . . . six examples
This blogpost gives more info about the six examples mentioned in the last one.
Read Covid-19 commentary: The Four Rs — Risk, Resilience, Recovery and . . . Ratios
Recovery: When to start? The answer is always now. So, where do we start?
Read National Food Strategy #12: Local risk and resilience
How well will Birmingham and other UK cities cope when (and it appears all too likely to be when not if) there are shortages and scarcities of food? We suspect not well at all.
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 Briefing Note: Risks and Resilience
Will Birmingham and other towns and cities in the UK have sufficient safe, nutritious food in the future?
Read Why talk of grow-your-own (GYO) is irrelevant and unhelpful
In the last 24 hours, a TV news planner and a city councillor have been in touch about grow-your-own (GYO) as solutions to (with the TV guy) getting kids to eat more veg and (the councillor) to food security...
Read How to KEEP London’s citizens fed and fed well . . .
In Our Response to the draft London Food Strategy, we didn’t use the words “sustainability” or “resilience”. And this blogpost is an explanation as to why.
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