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David Middleton Sustainability Conference: 28th September 2021

This blogpost provides the inputs to the afternoon workshop I’m facilitating at the Sustainability Conference on 28th September. A more comprehensive version, with links to more info (including answers to the questions), is in this document the 21st century challenge:...

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Its scale and complexity: When gut instinct works and when it doesn’t

This blogpost summarises this brief paper: Shining a light on the UK food supply system: Its scale and complexity. The preface to it explains that out gut instinct doesn’t work in alien environments — such as the scale and...

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Scale of supplies. Price rises. Why they are inevitable. What can BCC/BPH do?

In this short presentation to the Healthy Food City Forum, I made three points:

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Food System Transformation #12: A summary of the blogpost series

This blogpost is a summary of this series of blogposts on food system transformation:

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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.

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An apple a day . . .

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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...

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