Tag: scale

UK investment in horticulture technologies

At the best of times, the UK climate and terrain limits the range and quantity of fresh produce we can grow here. This Brexit means we’ve grown used to empty supermarket shelves, especially now midway through the ‘hungry months‘...

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Part 9: The huge quantities of food we need

Nearly all of us are utterly naff when it comes to working with large numbers — as I so ably demonstrated, though didn’t realise in the moment in my talk to the Lunar Society.

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Part 8: Sufficient food for populations

Most people have little understanding of the huge quantities of food that a population needs every day — let alone every year.

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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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